Recently I purchased an Acer gaming laptop loaded with Windows 10. I was really attracted to the quality of the hardware vs the price. The hard part would be moving off of the Unix type environment I’ve been used to. Adjusting to Windows took a little tweaking on my part. My goal was to get my workflow as similar as possible with the least amount of effort. I didn’t want to have to deal with the Bash on Ubuntu on Windows conncector.
Getting my Python setup going
I started by downloading the python-3.7.9.msi file from https://www.python.org/downloads/ and completing the wizard. Be sure to select the option for having it included on the system path. Once Python was installed the next step was to figure out how to get going with Pip
Using the default setup on windows, to perform Python incantations
python -m
Such as to invoke pip
python -m pip install requests
Or when spinning up a virtualenv
python -m venv venv
But you don’t have to use the -m flag to run a script
python myscript.py
A difference in how virtualenv works
Something noticable when moving between these platforms is that on windows the activate files are moved into venv/Scripts/activate vs on MacOS or Ubuntu venv/bin/activate
For compatibility, install GitBash
You can use git bash to do a bunch of this stuff too so it is much more Unix style When you open git bash run as administrator and make a new .bashrc file in the ~ directory
include things there like
export PATH=$PATH:/c/Python37/
export PATH=$PATH:/c/Python37/Scripts
Install the more cross-platform windows terminal
There is an app available from Microsoft that modernizes the terminal quite a bit and makes it much more similar to a linux of mac terminal, including support of commands like ls It can be found here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701#activetab=pivot:overviewtab