New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by WorldWideWayne on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:12PM (#10340464)

I'm running Windows 10 with multiple Linux server distros in the background. Hyper-V shuts them down and brings them up with Windows. WinSCP is my file manager and Putty is my terminal.

I prefer this over OS X on Apple hardware because I can get the exact Unix experience that I want without having to fight with Apple about who is in control of the machine. Perhaps more importantly, I get the desktop experience that I love, which is Windows.

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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by dugmartin on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:38PM (#10340738)

If you haven't tried it out I'd suggest checking out SuperPutty (https://github.com/jimradford/superputty) - it allows for multiple Putty windows in a tabbed interface.

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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by 0xFFC on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:58PM (#10340911)

I use exact same configuration , ARCH and DEBIAN cli in background and putty in windows 10 for my C development , and btsync for syncing file between two . I hate tabbed interface , especially in command line.

One good reason is window managers , with windows 10 window manager I get almost perfect tiling window manager functionality , but with tabs ?

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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by samstave on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @03:16PM (#10341564)

Thanks for this! I'm using putty and without tabs it drives me nuts. When I read the GP comment my first thought was "yeah same but tabless terminals sucks!" Then I saw your comment.

Didn't know about super putty - switching today.

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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by partiallypro on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @10:57PM (#10343966)

I really enjoy Bitvise over PuTTy. If you haven't checked it out, give it a gander. BUT, in the upcoming Windows 10 update SSH support is coming to Windows' shell. So technically you won't need either. It will be more like Terminal on Mac. I still will be using Bitvise, just because of how it manages key files, etc.

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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by WorldWideWayne on Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:36PM (#10353855)

Thanks! I have tried Bitvise a few times over the years, but it seems to be missing some features of WinSCP such as "Keep remote directory up to date..." which I use a lot. The terminal immediately seems nicer to use than Putty, but I have to find some way of using Bitvise terminal with WinSCP, or I need to find that one feature of WinSCP in Bitvise' file explorer.

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