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My check list to switch to Windows:

[x] Multiple desktops

[ ] Command line package manager like OSX's brew

[ ] Unified application install/upgrade center

[ ] Better terminal (tabs, anti-aliased fonts, split view)

[ ] Basic GNU utils (grep, ssh, find)




Concerning your second item: I'm not sure how it compares, but there's chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/

Concerning #4 there's Console2, ConEmu, and Cmder which is a package with ConEmu.

There are solutions for all but one of the above, which I mention because Brew isn't an Apple driven solution, so I assume you don't mind other decent solutions not provided by Microsoft.


Yes, I am fine with non Microsoft solutions. Chocolatey is good but is very sparse when it comes to packages. Also, it is no match for [brewcask](http://caskroom.io/). Updated my checklist - thanks for the list


Windows had the basic *nix utils (more BSD than GNU) with the SFU/SUA stuff which they killed with Windows 8.


OS X doesn't have a Unified application install/upgrade center.




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