That's largely the way I do it, but I have to use windows at my current job, so a good terminal isn't really present. putty does ok but it's cumbersome compare

That's largely the way I do it, but I have to use windows at my current job, so a good terminal isn't really present. putty does ok but it's cumbersome compared to openssh, and cygwin makes it better to use but terminals aren't very good. My current setup is ConEMU and cygwin. Trying to get permission to setup some kind of VM on the machine, (likely VB) so I can use what I'm used to.