I've never deployed on a windows server I'm thinking of my dev box here. I just install what I think of as standard dev tools. I guess they are not standard on

I've never deployed on a windows server I'm thinking of my dev box here. I just install what I think of as standard dev tools. I guess they are not standard on Windows. Hence my pain... I pretty much would have to install cygwin to get something I'd be close to comfortable working with -- at which point a virtual machine is just easier (and then I can install the same OS as on the server I'm deploying on anyway). Whereas I guess for you .NET core is a standard thing and it is (still) not a standard thing on Linux. Hence your pain.