Some time ago I needed to ssh into a Linux machine. For eons, a common way to do this way to use PuTTY. The point of this is not to discourage you from using PuTTY. PuTTY is fantastic.
So I had two motivations for checking out the native OpenSSH client in Windows 10:
- I heard SSH was now a native, but optional feature.
- Using PuTTY is very much a "Windows" thing to do. I wanted to gain a little of that "command line" speed and zen by being able to SSH in from any command prompt.
The vast majority of developers have Git on their machine and it probably shipped with Git Bash. Many developers erronesouly believe you can only use Git through Git Bash. This is an unnecessary practice that I think really slows you down.