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Darius Kazemi

today I learned that I have been using PuTTY on Windows for.... twenty years :blobsobglasses:

25 Feb 2021 at 20:08 | Open on friend.camp
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mhoye

@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: github.com/mintty/wsltty/relea

25 Feb 2021 at 20:18 | Open on mastodon.social
Darius Kazemi

@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.)

25 Feb 2021 at 20:23 | Open on friend.camp
mhoye

@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.

25 Feb 2021 at 20:40 | Open on mastodon.social
tommi

@darius how could you survive using Windows this long?

25 Feb 2021 at 22:33 | Open on mastodon.online
Darius Kazemi

@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.

25 Feb 2021 at 22:39 | Open on friend.camp
tommi

@darius Sorry, I thought Windows was your main OS and I was ironically asking

26 Feb 2021 at 20:09 | Open on mastodon.online
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