[NotTheDr01ds]

Yes, that secure channel thing was a bummer. I saw your Stack Overflow question a couple of days ago (I seem to be your sole upvote on it) and tried to come up with some kind of workaround, but no dice. Not a problem for me personally, but I was hoping I could get you some idea. It's still bugging me.

Question - Does secure channel come into play on every git operation? I would expect that it only comes into play when dealing with a remote repository (e.g. clone, push), right?

If so, what's the breakdown of your git operations that requires remote repo access? Would it help if you pushed using Git for Windows but did most of your other operations in WSL?

> I'll ever understand why there are about 8 versions of System Preferences in Windows 10

There's no good excuse for it; just legacy cruft. Same as with the different window styles.