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Terminus vs mRemoteNG

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When comparing Terminus vs mRemoteNG, the Slant community recommends Terminus for most people. In the question“What are the best SSH clients for Windows?” Terminus is ranked 8th while mRemoteNG is ranked 21st.

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Pros

Pro
It looks just beautiful

Pro
It's open source

This helps the community to move software forward and to make it even better.

Pro
Under active development

Hyper development has basically stalled out.

Pro
It comes with plugins

Pro
Customizable

A lot of things can be easily configured, e.g. color theme, size, window frame behavior, tab location, cursor style, hotkeys, etc.

Pro
Integrated GitBash, Cmd, PowerShell, and WSL

Pro
Is cross-platform

Even the question was "...for Windows", it's nice if you can use your tools over different platforms.

Pro
Integrates with git-bash with a simple toggle in the interface

Pro
Excellent interface

At start opens last session terminals. Also has terminal tabs.

Pro
It's free

Open source.

Pro
Import/Export feature

Allows to share connections.

Pro
Can open multiple sessions in different tabs

Pro
Supports multiple protocols

RDP (Remote Desktop/Terminal Server)
VNC (Virtual Network Computing)
ICA (Citrix Independent Computing Architecture)
SSH (Secure Shell)
Telnet (TELecommunication NETwork)
HTTP/HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
rlogin
Raw Socket Connections

Pro
Connection manager

Lets you organize your connections into folders with icons as well and allows nested folders as well.

Pro
Inheritance from folder properties

Inheritance makes it possible to store properties on folder basis and let the underlying connections inherit this info.

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Cons

Con
Slow with input lag

Sadly, Electron strikes again. The input lag is noticeable and annoying. Startup also takes like 2 seconds or more (On an i7 from 2016 with SSD).

Con
Some functions still fail

Con
80MB

It's huge. The amount of resources it consumes is not justifiable.

Con
Cannot remove the default profiles

For example, you installed Arch Linux for Windows Subsystem for Linux some time ago, but now you have deleted it and currently use Ubuntu on WSL. After that, if you decide to try this terminal emulator, you'll find Arch there without an option to remove the profiles already included in Terminus.

Con
Easy to be confused with different brands of the same or similar name

Like Terminus (Russian production company), Terminus (font) or Termius (SSH client).

Con
No multi window support

Can't split tabs into multiple windows.

Con
Private keys needs to be managed on PuTTY

Since mRemoteNG is integrated with PuTTY (included in the installation), all private key needs to be configured on PuTTY itself and then the PuTTY session needs to be selected on mRemoteNG.