Not really what you are after but the first thing I do with a windows machine is to install cygwin to make it usable. It sports a nice terminal and then you can

Not really what you are after but the first thing I do with a windows machine is to install cygwin to make it usable. It sports a nice terminal and then you can ssh from it. Also I've developed a win32 program on windows and since I'm used to the UNIX way of doing things. So why not. I wouldn't use it for a server if I've needed node.js I'd spin up an additional VPS.