What's the best replacement for serial port connectivity on Windows? That PuTTY has it's own terminal settings always bothered me but I'm not sure what all is popular.
plink -serial COM1 -sercfg 9600,8,N,1,N
Probably not too helpful if you’re dealing with poorly written windows serial software targeting embedded though.
Also python if you need to programmatically connect and operate a device over serial. Quite easy.
If WSL was not an option, I personally would still use PuTTY
I personally use 'screen'. It's a perfectly capable terminal for serial communications. It can even catch zmodem handshakes (it's in the manual).
That said, does WSL really provide serial devices? That’s pretty awesome. I wonder if USB also is a thing in the WSL2 world.