Windows 10: Help me set up a general development tool stack on my Windows 10 box

I'm doing development of all kinds, web development using the LAMP stack and node.js, cross-platform development with C++ and FLTK as well as with wxPython and pyinstaller and occasional experiments in Machine Learning using TensorFlow. And I'm sure next week I'll venture into some new technologies.

I've used Windows from 3.1 to Windows 7 on my desktop and done some Linux administration on servers. Then the last ten years I nearly exclusively worked on a Mac. Now I want to switch back to Windows, at least partially, as I'm doing a lot of cross-platform development. On macOS, I'm using a combination of Homebrew and Miniconda and I use the shell (Bash) a lot.

Having missed the last ten years of setting up development tools on Windows, I'm kind of lost. Of course, I could set up all needed tools by themself, but I'm afraid this ends up in a nightmare regarding version management and updates. Right now, I've installed Miniconda for my Python work and MinGW for C++ development. Both work great, but to use the conda environment I have to open the (Windows-based) Anaconda prompt. For MinGW however, I have to use the (bash based) MSYS2 prompt. Switching from the Windows to the Bash prompt is rather annoying.

The next thing I need is a web dev environment containing Apache, PHP, and node.js. If I install XAMPP and node.js by itself, that should be sufficient. But is this really the best approach? I also considered Chocolatey as a Homebrew replacement, but the installation instructions with bypassing the execution policy don't look too convincing. Of course, I played around with WSL, but it also did not look like a solution to me. Perhaps I should have looked longer.

tl;dr

What's the recommended approach to do all kinds of development on Windows 10 without drowning in a sea of version management turmoil?

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

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