I will say, though, that OSS on Windows has really come a very long way in the last ten years. I use a normal OSS toolchain (Mingw32 and Strawberry Perl) end-t

I will say, though, that OSS on Windows has really come a very long way in the last ten years. I use a normal OSS toolchain (Mingw32 and Strawberry Perl) end-to-end now, and that wasn't always possible.