I just want the basics like ~, cat, grep, curl, etc to work.

I once had to install openssh on windows because the default util for ssh was ass, for some reason it would work very differently than every other client i tried

With containers I guess it matters less. You could have a Windows host and Linux container, and probably not cause any problems with case folding or line feeds, but again: why half ass it.

Containers are way more heavy on windows sadlyz that’s because you first need a VM of linux to make them work

Do you do software development work?

Yeah, i do it mainly on Windows for various reasons and it’s shit tbh

Some tools suck for windows, some doesn’t exist at all, i need too many siftwares to mimic Linux functionality, i have to install dependencies manually using installers sometimes if i am lucky they are on Scoop(a package manager for winslop), mess with env variables every 3 seconds and i want to kms

I can’t even use some C/C++ libraries (like ncurses 💔) and compilation documentations are always 3 times longer