I like to use a familiar set of utilities on Windows. It's not just for software development either. A little while ago I used the Cygwin shell to clean up my d

I like to use a familiar set of utilities on Windows. It's not just for software development either. A little while ago I used the Cygwin shell to clean up my downloads folder and it worked like a charm. I also used to have a couple of shell scripts for maintaining my music collection. Spinning up a virtual machine for this kind of stuff seems a little unnecessary, and it seems cumbersome to have to maintain a list of shared folders when I really want my tools to work on whatever directories/mounts Windows has access to. Even when I do work in a VM, I use a Cygwin terminal and ssh client to connect to it. mintty is fairly amazing.