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Nicolas Bailly • Edited

As someone who's been working with PHP on Windows for 10 years I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

I usually just install Homestead on Hyper-V and start coding with my favorite editor (which is PHPStorm, but it could very well be VSCode or Atom), test locally and push to gitlab to deploy via CI/CD.

For the command line I mostly use the default Powershell terminal (which is underwhelming), but Conemu or the preconfigured cmder are IMHO better alternatives than MobaXterm. Hopefully in a couple of months we'll have the native windows Terminal.

I can't help you with the caps-lock and Ctrl situation as I have a typematrix keyboard where the caps-lock key is conveniently tucked at the very right side of the keyboard where I can forget about it ;-)