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As a self-identified linux engineer who, despite tremendous efforts to avoid it, has somehow managed to still spend about half my career having to care about windows in some way... the answer to "how do you do [thing] on windows sanely?" is generally "it is simply done insanely instead."

Am I biased? Haha yes, I have a signed copy of Free Software, Free Society. But also I have spent years caring about products that do need to work on windows. And my professional take is "there is always a way to do it, but it is very seldom pretty." (And my take for linux is "there is always a way to do it, often more than one, and at least one of them is going to be pretty, but which one is the pretty one will depend greatly on who you are and what you're doing").