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A really powerful feature in PowerShell is to download MSYS2 and then launch a proper shell :)

I started to learn PowerShell and probably will still have to proceed, but I so far successfully avoided it in my current job. MSYS2 for sometime was a relief (WSL was a bit crippled on my company's internal network)

Cygwin aside, WSL became pretty good actually.

WSL2 has some network shenanigans that make it fail when I'm on the corporate VPN. Cisco, MS and corporate IT say they are on it. They've been "on it" for the past 20-ish months.

https://github.com/sakai135/wsl-vpnkit fixes that problem for me, and is less annoying than other fixes I tried

If you're not allowed to install anything, asking for git automatically comes with git-bash, so it provides some cover for the real reason. And hey, bonus, you get git!

That’s how some colleagues dealt with the corporate network shenanigans that crippled WSL.