I have to use a windows machine at work and I've settled on cygwin, console2, sublimetext, and vagrant. Ubuntu at home, but I love the VM workflow so much that

I have to use a windows machine at work and I've settled on cygwin, console2, sublimetext, and vagrant. Ubuntu at home, but I love the VM workflow so much that I've switched over; it has an obscene number of benefits for a low amount of upfront work. Every morning I pull changes if I need to, cd /to/the/project, vagrant up && vagrant ssh, and I'm in a perfectly configured dev machine. Work on ~2007 Dells and its smooth as silk.