XDA Developers

A developer shares their experience replacing three long-standing Windows tools with modern alternatives. PuTTY is swapped for Windows Terminal, which now handles SSH natively and offers a tabbed interface with portable JSON-based config. Notepad++ is replaced by VS Code, praised for its integrated terminal, Git support, and project-level editing. WinSCP is replaced by Cyberduck, which supports more protocols including S3 and cloud storage backends. The author notes the transition was faster and easier than expected.

I replaced PuTTY, Notepad++, and WinSCP with modern tools, and I wish I had sooner

PuTTY made sense before Windows could do SSH natively

Notepad++ is great, but VS Code is in a different league

WinSCP gets the job done, but Cyberduck is nicer to use

No, thanks. PuTTY is still the best option for serial connection, and VScode interface is cluttered.

I haven’t installed Putty is years but was always good at what it done, I had Notepad++ on my last computer but I really only used it as a scratchpad and the new Windows notepad has enough new features for me to not install it, but I have used Cyberduck for a long time

I feel like notepad++ and VS code serve different purposes for a lot of things? I think some stuff I have shifted to vscode if I’m inspecting a bunch of files in a repo, but I I just want to quickly look and format a json or xml no way am I opening vscode for that

Using VSCode as a substitute of Notepad++ means you don’t know what you are doing with either of them

I hoped to see you replaced whole stack to Linux