Darius Kazemi
today I learned that I have been using PuTTY on Windows for.... twenty years 
Feb 25, 2021 at 8:08pmWeb
Show threadmhoyeFeb 25, 2021
@darius Until the WSL came along that was the only game in town, and even the terminal MS included with its first iteration of the WSL was pretty awful, so I googled "wsl terminal that works as well as PuTTY" and found: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/releases
Releases · mintty/wsltty

Mintty as a terminal for Bash on Ubuntu on Windows / WSL - mintty/wsltty

Show threadDarius KazemiFeb 25, 2021
@mhoye apparently WSL2 is... really really shockingly good. I may give it a shot. (I tried the beta of WSL1 and it was too janky for my needs.)
Show threadmhoyeFeb 25, 2021
@darius Yeah, 1 was "the marvel is not that the bear dances well" material, particularly considering NTFS performance which lol, but 2 is surprisingly good.
Show threadMaxFeb 25, 2021

@mhoye @darius The new Windows Terminal is great, too. It’s an easy install from the Store or from GitHub.

I’ve been happy with WSL since WSL1, but I mostly only use it for the occasional Ruby apps/scripts. (Jekyll mostly.)

Show threadtommiFeb 25, 2021
@darius how could you survive using Windows this long?
Show threadDarius KazemiFeb 25, 2021
@xplosionmind Sorry, I don't understand the question -- putty is specifically for accessing unix machines remotely, so I am not even using Windows for these use cases except as a terminal device.
Show threadtommiFeb 26, 2021
@darius Sorry, I thought Windows was your main OS and I was ironically asking