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Yeah, that was my thought too. KiTTY is leaps and bounds better than putty -which it was forked from - and for a while I made a point to recommend it to any windows user who needed to do any sshing.

Buuuut, I just found mobaxterm, which has a ridiculous amount of features. And I'm pretty sure git bash for windows has ssh, and cmder, and now the Linux subsystem - so there are a lot more options on the table these days. Kitty's days might be numbered.



I actually regressed to putty.

I don't recall why exactly, I think there was some config option that was missing. More importantly though, tmux basically made the advantages of kitty obsolete.


I really need to start intentionally using tmux.

It's just so hard when my i3 bindings are right there, already learned, and they give me all of the screen management I need already - so tmux is only offering me the long-running, detachable session benefits. But even that would be good to learn...

tbh I'm going to be downloading and checking out both kitty and alacritty when I have time; if alacritty turns out to be worth it, it will be the kick in the tail I need to start in on tmux.

(Maybe this mobile graphics card that bluescreens if used at vanilla clock speeds will finally be useful for something!)


I need tmux because I work from a single putty session. Sadly, I think a lot of tmux value is gone when you start a separate session in each separate terminal window.


MobaXterm is nice, and it does a lot of other really useful stuff too, but $70/year for support is a lot of money for a terminal.


Home edition is free, which you are able to use as long as you want and you don't even get a reminder pop-up from my experience so far. $70/year is for the professional version.

Checking out their download page[0] does reveal some limits on the home edition - 12 sessions, 2 ssh tunnels (I wish I knew if those were "simultaneous" or "saved"), a couple of other things - but I haven't run up against these limits yet. I do think that if I was doing something that required more than twelve simultaneous ssh sessions, I would have already switched over to my Linux installation. SSHing from Windows is something I generally do for small things.

[0]: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download.html




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