Using Windows 10 Pro Bash shell to interface with Linux virtual machines

If you're using either Windows 10 Pro or Windows 10 Enterprise, you already have an SSH client built into your operating system.

So, let's see how to do this:

1. To get to it, you can open the traditional Command Prompt from the Windows System menu, like so:

2. Then, just type in the SSH commands the same as you would from a Mac or Linux machine, like this:

3. A better option is to use Windows PowerShell instead of the normal Command Prompt. Get to it as you see here:

4. As before, let's use it to log in to my Orange Pi device, as shown here:

If you have the choice, go with PowerShell instead of Command Prompt. PowerShell is a bit closer to the Linux Bash shell experience, and you'll be much happier with it.