> On my laptop, I opened a terminal and ran sudo minicom --device /dev/ttyUSB0 --baudrate 115200 to monitor the computer over serial. In addition to saving logs

> On my laptop, I opened a terminal and ran sudo minicom --device /dev/ttyUSB0 --baudrate 115200 to monitor the computer over serial. In addition to saving logs You can just use screen for that and have a working terminal with color support et al.