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[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

It's crazy that someone can go through college for comp sci and never touch things like VSC or PuTTY until they're in the workforce.

Meanwhile a programming boot camp or IT Security Analyst boot camp will have you digging into the tools of the trade immediately.

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Heh yeah. Lots of fresh grads don't even really know anything about application development. Like they have a handful of sorting algorithms memorised and can explain what a compiler does (and are thinking about writing one some day) but can't actually build anything.

Often, they can pick it up quickly, whatever the "it" is... But it doesn't give them that much of a head start compared to someone who did a shorter program or self-taught.

I've never used PuTTY either, tbh... Is that just what Windows users use for SSH stuff?

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Not anymore, it's a terminal emulator but most have transitioned to just using Poweshell to SSH into things. I like multi-tabbed putty and use it heavily when configuring network appliances.

It's also not a Windows thing lol you can install it natively in Debian, Fedora, and Arch that I know of with the basic package manager of each.

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Oh lol TIL. I just read "PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform" on putty.org.

I wonder how many of the people I work with have used it before. Maybe I'm an outlier for never encountering it.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I've never used Linux in an Enterprise environment so I don't know if there's an easier way to store servers/switches as objects and access them via the standard terminal than MTPuTTY, but yeah I'm not surprised it was originally created for windows and then ported at some later time.

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