I'm really not into Cygwin, just "Mingw / MSYS" works for me. But I'm not too much of a shell ninja to begin with--might rather script my needs in an x-platform

I'm really not into Cygwin, just "Mingw / MSYS" works for me. But I'm not too much of a shell ninja to begin with--might rather script my needs in an x-platform way (whether that be Python or Node or Dart or plain Go) because I know I might be on Windows whenever I'm going through a gaming phase. Those come and go but when there is one, I'd want to take a quick break firing up Steam without needing to reboot, so I'd just work from Win7 to begin with.