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Since I switched to cygwin for ssh on windows I haven't looked back, putty is awful for someone coming from Linux normally and only forced to use Windows for certain things.

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Yeah. I use a modified mintty-solarized-dark theme for cygwin, and symlinked my windows home dir into the cygwin one.

I never got around on writing a blag about how to do this, but I like it a lot

Exactly the same for me, mintty with solarized theme because I use solarized on all my other terminals in Fedora for example.

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