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by Retozi 3442 days ago
I'm using a MacBook Pro with Windows on it as my main development environment except for iOS native stuff obviously.

1. install chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/, and install everything with it

2. install conEmu for a decent command line

3. install git for windows, which comes with a bash shell that brings you all the linux commands, inlcuding ssh.

This brings a Windows PC relatively far. You can even get ssh-agent working with an according .bashrc script (along the lines of https://github.com/joaotavora/holy/blob/master/share/zsh/ssh...)

This does it for me to do node / web-dev / java/ android centered development, I prefer it over macOS and Linux.

Things I do not use:

1) Cywgin. Quite the behemoth, and I get by with git bash just fine

2) The Ubuntu Subsystem. I tried it, had trouble with ssh stuff, seems not ready yet...

3) putty. the open-ssh that comes with git is better and closer to linux.

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  >> 3. install git for windows, which comes with a bash shell that brings you all the linux commands, including ssh.
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