I don't get agree with your parent, but I used cygwin when I was on Windows and it mostly does what you want if you just need basic command line tools. The maj

I don't get agree with your parent, but I used cygwin when I was on Windows and it mostly does what you want if you just need basic command line tools. The major annoyances were packages were limited, compiling anything was generally a disaster and file permissions between linux/windows are a mess. I happily used it everyday though.