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Windows Subsystem for Linux has come a long way, as have many of the native tooling ports. Chocolatey is your second stop (now with a basic GUI because, Windows.
Oh-My-* shells work well on WSL, you can customize whatever you like in the same way you are familiar with today. I personally use StarShip as my prompt shell for PowerShell (I use fish on my WSL). It makes things smoother when using CLI in Windows.
There is also package manager Scoop (https://scoop.sh) which is more like Homebrew as it is geared for mainly CLI programs although you can add extra buckets including the Non-Portable bucket that uses standard MSI/EXE installers.
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