Windows Dev Box Try 2 2018
Going to list somethings as I go.
The Mac, in spite of Apple, is a great developer experience, here is to hoping the Windows, with the help of Microsoft, grows to be better and better as the improve it via user feedback to make it a great development box.
Links This started it all https://char.gd/blog/2017/how-to-set-up-the-perfect-modern-dev-environment-on-windows
Webdev on Windows with WSL and VS Code
NPM and Composer install take a long time Some of this is the Windowsantimalware running.