Ask HN: Windows Dev Setup?

I just landed a job where the only OS to choose from is Windows. As an experienced Linux and macOS user, it sounds challenging, but I see it as an opportunity. Is there anybody with similar experience (web apps development on Windows)? Can you share some bits of advice, tools, and setup?

Its better then ever.

1. Use Chocolatey (winget is still new). You can setup everything via it, and I mean everything - node, postgre, docker, vscode, all browsers, selenium and drivers etc.

2. Learn Powershell, but learn it really good. Adopt PowerShell build system Invoke-Build

3. Install better terminal - ConEmu or Windows terminal

4. Enrich Windows using FOSS and cross platform tools: choco install copyq, flameshot, less, fzf, paint.net, git, tortoisegit, winscp, kitty, screentogif, sysinternals, wiztree, gsudo, lockhunter, signal, viber, slack

5. Disable Windows Defender and use some debloater (controversial, but I do it, and system is at least x2-x5 faster). I use https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 along with ShutUp10 tool.

6. Install the best search engine in the world: cinst everything

Enjoy, its awesome.

After years of Fedora I now primarily run Windows because WSL just does everything I need. I prefer to still work in WSL Linux env and have my IDEs running through Windows (mostly Visual Studio Code and Goland). It's a nice setup for me because both OSes are just seamlessly available.

Having said that I've had so many sleep/power management problems with Windows with my new ThinkPad that I nearly just switched back to Fedora before finding a configuration that more or less seems to work.

Addendum to 2: use PowerShell 7, a newer major version than the one probably coming as default, and based on the modern Core lineage. You get niceties and the sanity you'd expect such as UTF-8 when writing to files with the > operator.

Here's my $PROFILE:

    Import-Module PSReadLine
    Set-PSReadLineOption -EditMode Emacs
    Set-PSReadLineOption -HistorySearchCursorMovesToEnd
    Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key UpArrow -Function HistorySearchBackward
    Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key DownArrow -Function HistorySearchForward
    Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function Complete

    Import-Module posh-git
    Import-Module oh-my-posh
    Set-PoshPrompt -Theme material

    function e { emacs -nw $args }
    function gs { git status $args }
    del alias:gc -Force
    function gc { git commit $args }
    del alias:gp -Force
    function gp { git push -u origin $(git branch --show-current) }
    function python { python3 $args }