PuTTY has handled Secure Shell (SSH) on my Windows PCs for years, and I’ve never had much to complain about with the app itself. Windows offers plenty of ways to handle SSH, but the friction for me came from everything I had to pile on top of the connection itself. I’d open WinSCP as soon as files came into the picture, run the same status commands after every login, keep reusable commands in a separate spot, and repeat parts of that routine across every server I touched.