On a lark recently, I tried to get node setup on my Win10 gaming box so I could try out a basic workflow and see how I liked it. My normal environment is using MacOS and Linux.

I don't remember any specific "wtf" details, but generally it was kind of a non-starter. I got node installed, but then there were issues with using that runtime for my simple server demo. The whole attempt was frustrating. Tried installing the pseudo Linux shell thing for the command prompt and I gave up trying to use that pretty quickly.

Obviously I'm not a native Windows developer. This was just me experimenting. I'm not sure how Win devs actually work these days on non-Win applications in any productive capacity.

I can easily get stuff done on MacOS and Linux but Windows is just this multi-decade old black box of cruft.