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I use GnuWin32 to get most of my Linux CL needs. Past that, well, I usually SSH into a beastly Linux machine and Windows is just a glorified "thing that runs putty" (well and runs my music player and plays flash without sucking.)

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The problem with that is that you only can access the decent environment (the beastly Linux box) from a place with good connectivity. I find it invaluable to have a stand-alone working environment inside my computer for those times the network is not available (or I don't want to be easily reachable or tempted to open the browser and come here).

Well. I run emacs for my text editor (and everything else). The stuff I do in the CLI is usually sort of basic shell scripting and pushing code.

I use the Windows' offline files feature to access my features over a samba share as well.

(That being said, in general if I'm on my laptop, I do have good connectivity...)

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