No, I'm talking about a lot more settings than that including things about terminal emulation and keyboards. Next time you use PuTTY, try opening up the settings window for an existing session and see how many can be changed without having to restart afresh.

Some of these could be changed in various more disjointed ways in Linux or Windows, but it's nicely unified and cross-platform in PuTTY.

I'll admit I rarely leverage this flexibility, but it's cool enough that it seemed worth noting in this sub-thread about singing PuTTY's well-deserved praises.

Just wanted to thank you for this answer. I never knew about OpenSSH escape sequences and I've used ssh for years.

https://pleiades.ucsc.edu/hyades/SSH_Escape_Sequences