Windows Dev and Setup: Recommendations and Best Practices [Collaborative Wiki]

Just so everyone is on the same page; when it comes to VS Code you can set which shell you’d like do use in settings.json (where WSL and git-cmd needs to be installed).

WSL

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\wsl.exe",

PowerShell

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe",

cmd

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe",

git-cmd

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\git-cmd.exe",