&gt; Huh? Okay - think Cygwin, except:<p>No GCC or compilers, which I would think is one of the biggest reasons most people use Cygwin? Cygwin isn&#x27;t just shell commands, and surprisingly PowerShell doesn&#x27;t suck as much it features some unixy commands. As well as others have mentioned Clink makes cmd.exe suck even less.