[smaudet]

I suggest if you're that confused you try linux again...you obviously didn't dig into it very hard.

There are shells, environment, terms (ttys), package managers, and then there a bunch of emulation packages on windows.

Go back and read the docs for each tool to understand what it provides (shell, environment, terminal support, library, or package manager).

Clear as mud?

That's why I suggest trying linux again.