1. 1. It’s clumsy. I can’t resize properly.
2. 2. Doesn’t take NUL character apparently
3. 3. Backspace is acting weird so far.
4. 4. cmd.exe looks ugly!

However, putty is pretty amazing in terms of usability. I finally found the solution with puttycyg which adds an option to run a cygwin terminal session on putty.

http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/

Here’s something that you can do to get even better results:

1. Download the release / Compile the source code from subversion repository (I, for one being lazy, just downloaded the release)

2. Make a shortcut of the included putty.exe (to desktop/start)

3. Right click the shortcut, and select properties. Add the following

putty.exe –cygterm -

This will just open just cygterm without selecting anything in the GUI.

With Lauchy, it’s just about pressing Alt+F2 and typing puttycyg now.