Beyond the Myth: Develop Comfortably on Windows

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A practical guide to setting up a comfortable Windows developer environment using winget to install apps, replacing the console with Windows Terminal and PowerShell 7, enabling PSReadLine for history and completions, and installing Oh My Posh (Powerlevel10k with Nerd fonts) to show git status, Node/JDK versions and Kubernetes context. Adds PowerToys (Paste as plain text, Color Picker, PowerToys Run) and DevToys for utilities, configures git aliases and a compact git log, and enables VS Code format-on-save and project settings; delivers about five copy-pasteable JSON/text config files to restore the full environment.

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1. 0:00Windows introduction
2. 1:43Winget package manager
3. 2:47Windows Terminal customization
4. 3:50PowerToys for UX
5. 5:57DevToys for devs
6. 7:00PowerShell 7 benefits
7. 8:43PSReadLine and omzsh module
8. 11:53Nerd fonts setup
9. 12:15Git custom config
10. 13:20Git log format
11. 14:42Git aliases
12. 15:23VS Code extensions
13. 16:29VS Code project settings
14. 16:52Sync dev configs
15. 18:13Summary

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