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Learn to use Powershell. You might not like it if you are a BASH wizard, but it has a large number of modules which ease administration. Even if you manage to spend most of your time in WSL2 and VisualStudio/IntelliJIDEA you will still need to administer and interrogate your host OS. Powershell is the sanest way to do that.

You should probably see what you can do with Chocolatey/Scoop depending on security policy. Package management in Windows is severely deficient compared to GNU/Linux distros but those are possibilities.

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