Unfortunately WSL and Terminal have high friction cost, even despite being made by the same company as OS. So if you have a new VM (or 10, or god forbid 100+) you likely wouldn't either of those installed by default. Though I'm not familiar with recent packaging of Windows. On my current setup I had to install Terminal and WSL from the MS Store, which is extremely slow, buggy (sometimes halts updates of random programs) and I suspect won't work without account at all.
So in that situation it is ten times faster and easier to just download Putty and immediately start working.
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[ 1.3 ms ] story [ 31.9 ms ] threadI have sympathy about the domain squatting but at this point you're making it easy for them when that's your official url.
Ah, okay I'll be vigilant. What is it then, something like putty.com? ...
> The PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and it always has been.
... ah, I think I see the problem ...
So in that situation it is ten times faster and easier to just download Putty and immediately start working.
https://www.putty.org/20250713-MiraiF-Emails.txt
He's forwarding to Simon Tatham's page and always have; he's not providing mirrored executables.
The domain owner knows what people are coming for, and has forwarded to the right page for more than two decades.
I see that it may be a cause for concern because of our consciousness about software supply chains we have today.
But the domain owner of putty.org provides his own unorthodox but reliable service to the online community.
On the other hand, putty.net is just for sale. Which application is more moral here?