[pixl97]

Yep, WSL is the way to go, specifically WSL2 if you want more IO performance.

Very convenient on my work laptop where I can't replace the OS.

[naikrovek]

bash, zsh, ksh, etc., those aren't shells for Windows, though, are they?

[pixl97]

The distinction is kind of meaningless. If you want an extensible shell in windows you're either using powershell (which I have come to quite like) or you can use any of the Linux shells that exist via WSL. Native shells just were not a thing for the longest time as the type of user that wanted that tended to go to Linux.

[cloudking]

WSL makes it possible, you can interact with the Linux and Windows filesystems interchangeably

[naikrovek]

i know, but that isn’t really what i’m getting at.