I was looking for was a no-fuss, lightweight, robust and as simple as possible solution to running my normal Bash-based workflow inside the main Windows filesystem, interacting with the Windows world. Turns out there are some solutions. Read on for more info on that.
Windows Subsystem for Linux too heavy First, I must mention the impressive work by Microsoft on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (aka. WSL) , which more or less lets you run an almost full-blown distribution of popular Linux distros like Ubuntu and Fedora.