Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
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PuTTY AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Shells for Windows
There are many alternatives to PuTTY for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows Shell alternative is Tabby, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PuTTY and ten of them are Shells available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows Shell alternatives to PuTTY are PowerShell, ZOC, WindTerm and Tempest - SSH and SFTP client.
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- 116 Tabby alternatives
70 PowerShell alternativesPowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.
80 ZOC alternativesZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.
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Tempest is a free, cross platform, privacy first, SSH client, Local terminal and Kubernetes terminal.
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- Free
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FireCMD command shell has features like recursive aliases, command substitution using files, HTML and CSS support, which makes it a next generation command shell. It also remembers command history and last working directory for next session.
Simple alternative to ssh (<5% SLOCC) written from scratch in Go, with support for PQC KEMs (Post-Quantum Cryptography Key-Encapsulation Mechanisms).
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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I think Tabby is overall easier and more smoother to work with. Specially since you get tabs, themes etc. If you just want to ssh into this than that I don't know why you wouldn't switch to tabby.