Powershell is actually pretty cool if you embrace it for what it is and don't try to use it like a unix shell. Of course, through Cygwin, MingW, et al you can

Powershell is actually pretty cool if you embrace it for what it is and don't try to use it like a unix shell. Of course, through Cygwin, MingW, et al you can also just run bash or whatever shell you want on Windows. To be honest I don't spend a ton of time in terminal windows on Windows for some of the reasons others mentioned, though I do tend to constantly be using the shell on the Linux VMs I mentioned (often just sshed into a local VM).