one of the problems i've always had with emacs on windows is that random commands want to shell out to non-standard programs, so they fail unless you dig around

one of the problems i've always had with emacs on windows is that random commands want to shell out to non-standard programs, so they fail unless you dig around and tweak your system. I hit this immediately in the APE version by trying to download use-package. Packages to install: 1 (use-package-2.4.5). Proceed? (y or n) y Operation [ Install 1 ] started Contacting host: melpa.org:443 Opening TLS connection to ‘melpa.org’... Opening TLS connection with ‘gnutls-cli --x509cafile nil -p 443 melpa.org’...failed Opening TLS connection with ‘gnutls-cli --x509cafile nil -p 443 melpa.org --protocols ssl3’...failed Opening TLS connection to ‘melpa.org’...failed