Screenshot of how my PowerShell setup looks like

Last time I wrote about my development setup on Windows 10, I suggested using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and I still think this is the best (or most confortable) approach for most Unix people. However, you might find yourself in a situation where you can't really use WSL, such as needing to compile Windows native binaries or your company-issued laptop just won't allow it.

I actually am in one of those situations, so at first I tried a Cygwin setup, and it did work, but not painlessly (it took me some work to get to a place where I was confortable) and it was slow and buggy at times.

After much pain and unwillingness to dedicate more time to Cygwin, I said "screw it" and went the Windows-way (not without some initial resistance of course) and found out that you can get a pretty "Riced Unix" feel with PowerShell easily, and that PowerShell is actually good. So here's a writeup on how I got it working the way I like.

1. Install Git

You know you need it. You can get Git for Windows here.

2. Install Windows Terminal

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