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Any love for Windows. I'm getting restless to ditch putty but unable to find any good emulator that has select and login style of management screen.

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I've been happy enough with Microsoft Terminal instead of PuTTY (and I appreciate the open source github repo). If you're comfortable with editing JSON files, you can save the SSH connections as profiles so you can click to open a new tab to whatever SSH session (or WSL setup, or Powershell setup) you want. Example: https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/how-to-set-up-custom-ssh-pr...

Yeah, I've never had a reason to use anything other than Microsoft Terminal on Windows with WSL.

These days, I actually just use the terminal that's built-in to VSCode for everything...

Apparently it works great on WSL

See this other user's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42518033

For the 10th time WSL is not windows, it's a Linux emulator.

When on windows I have been happy with WezTerm

I ditched putty a long time ago. Conemu is better than putty these days (latest Windows 10 or Windows 11 if you’re unlucky enough).

I don’t like the “feel” of the new Windows Terminal “app” but it is more “modern” and “capable” (running a newer conhost under the hood).

But if you’re willing to use non-standard software then WezTerm, Alacritty, and Kitty (WSL with an XServer) are all good options.

> Windows support is planned after the 1.0 release.

This really does aim to be the terminal for all.

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