When I was first getting started with programming in about 2008, I found it to be so unbelievably frustrating. Any tutorial I was following would invariably run

When I was first getting started with programming in about 2008, I found it to be so unbelievably frustrating. Any tutorial I was following would invariably run into something that didn't work how it was supposed to. I would try to find some work around, and sort of would, but it would lead to other unforeseen issues down the line. I finally came across cygwin, and that sort of made things start to work. Eventually, though, I just installed a linux partition and literally never looked back. The entire ecosystem of everything I was learning at the time (Python, JS, PHP) was set up for unix. Things have improved over time, and obviously WSL is nice, but it's still a pain.