Putty isn't just ssh, it's also the VTE and serial terminal. Also it has its own keys/configs/shortcuts people are almost certainly used to. I don't think there's even an easy way to migrate putty shortcuts (I can't remember what they're called) to OpenSSH.
It's a different paradigm. I think just like they do sometimes we get lost in our own world. They had CUA and portable apps before malware became a big deal and got really used to that.
I think people should respect that try harder to meet users where they are.
Modern malware tries to infect all the systems. Long gone are the days where linux or macos malware didn't exist. Stop bringing up utterly useless arguments just so you can justify your usage of winblows
I'll bite. What is your preferred way to use serial port console on linux? Kermit? I am really no fan of minicom...
Also, I'd take pterm over modern gpu electron nodejs turtle tower terminals. It has sane requirements and perfomance, behaves in a consistent, predictable manner and handles large scrollback very well.
I don't need to use a serial com that often, but when I do I use picocom. I'm already on Linux and wanting to do cli things so I want to use my normal terminal emulator. The readme doesn't really cover all it does as well as the man page.
xterm is actually great, if you know to invoke and use the exotic control UI. That software is ancient.
Using putty's plink/pscp/pftp commandline tools are refreshingly straightforward and also have merit, at least as a way of not dealing with OpenSSH maintainer tantrums (each release inventing wonderful ways to break your setup or confuse you for no good reason).
It is all around small solid piece of software (like his puzzle collection), that is a magnet for all sorts of crooks that try to distribute their "spiked" versions, or try to charge for it...
I am amazed it has not gone the way of libtomcrypt yet.
