There's nothing analogous in Windows to ~/.ssh and yet I can find my keys there even on Windows. There's nothing analogous to /etc on Windows and yet I can find

There's nothing analogous in Windows to ~/.ssh and yet I can find my keys there even on Windows. There's nothing analogous to /etc on Windows and yet I can find a dns resolver file in \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts I grew up using Windows and decision to name a folder Scripts (inconsistently), in a multiplatform open source software development project is incomprehensible to me.