[Lifescape]

My situation is I have a Windows machine I game on and don't like rebooting all the time to get into my arch partition. It'd be nice to have a good shell to do some dev work on if I wanted to fix something really quick without rebooting. Right now I just boot up a vm and work on that. Shells I've used in the past (ConEmu, Console 2, Cmder) have all been good, but not good enough.

[tokenizerrr]

You should try starting your arch partition in virtualbox, I've had success doing that before (you can still boot into it normally as well).

[TTPrograms]

I use Console 2 with Cygwin in conjunction with an Ubuntu VM on my Windows 8 desktop and it works beautifully - best of all worlds.

[agorabinary]

I know from personal experience that Steam works slightly better on windows than linux, so I see your point there.

[hetman]

Never mind the plethora of games which are Windows only.