I used to be a hard-core Microsoft/Windows developer; in fact, I used to work for Microsoft! I was stuck in the Visual Studio sandbox and addicted to graphical tools. It has been a very slow transition, but I'm now addicted to my shell. If you are stuck on Windows, you should force yourself to learn and use PowerShell. And at home, you should install a Unix and force yourself to learn Bash. You'll thank me later.