What is the main difference between Putty to MobaXterm or XServer? [closed]

What is the main difference between Putty to MobaXterm or XServer?

I know they are all SSH clients (FOSS, gratis), but is there a main catergorial difference?

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You can tell this by just looking at the tagline from MobaXterm's website:

Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more.

According to its website, it features:

<sub>- Sessions management (so does PuTTY)
- Graphical SFTP browser
- X11 server
- Enhanced X extensions
- Multi-execution
- Embedded servers
- Embedded tools
- Remote Unix desktop (XDMCP)
- Remote Windows desktop (RDP)
- SSH gateway
- SSH tunnels (port forwarding)
- MobApt package manager
- Text Editor
- Macros support
- Passwords management
- Syntax highlighting in terminal
- Professional Customizer (Pro Edition only)</sub>

_{The screenshot is from MobaXterm's demo video, hence the playback handle at the bottom. Sorry for that...}

PuTTY, on the other hand, is just an SSH/telnet client with a GUI. There are forks of it, such as KiTTY, that offer more features.

_{The screenshot shows 2 instances (1 already connected, 1 main window) of KiTTY, a PuTTY fork.}

Which one you want to use is completely up to you. For quickly accessing a few dozen SSH clients with automatic user&password submission, PuTTY/KiTTY will be sufficient.