I use the Babun Shell [0] on Windows desktops to provide an environment for tools more typically found and used in a Unix-like environment.
I know it's not the same as installing a tool natively, but it lets me a) use some tools pretty much in the way I prefer to do so and b) check out stuff that I see on HN (and elsewhere) without a PITA install.
Installing was a one line deal if pip is installed (pip install --upgrade httpie), which in turn was a one line installation (wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -O - | python)
I know it's not the same as installing a tool natively, but it lets me a) use some tools pretty much in the way I prefer to do so and b) check out stuff that I see on HN (and elsewhere) without a PITA install.
Installing was a one line deal if pip is installed (pip install --upgrade httpie), which in turn was a one line installation (wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -O - | python)
That's pretty close to one line.
[0] https://babun.github.io/