1. Install Scoop
Scoop is a command-line installer for Windows -- it's like Homebrew for Windows. It installs programs from the command line with a minimal amount of friction. More info about scoop is available here: https://gist.github.com/andrew-rietz/66e4ebcf96f85b6618b078ebe00104b1
To install, open PowerShell and execute the following command:
iex (new-object net.webclient).downloadstring('https://get.scoop.sh')
2. Use Scoop to install some awesome helper applications
We'll use Scoop to install a couple applications: posh-git and starship. Posh-git adds a lot of the convenience features you get in git bash directly into PowerShell (autocompletion, etc.). We'll also install starship.rs: a customizeable prompt for many of the common shells (Bash, Fish, Zsh, PowerShell).