A few months ago Microsoft announced a new open source terminal they are working on:
As you can see in the Trailer of the video you can access an Ubuntu/Debian etc bash terminal from the Windows terminal.
My question is how do you access this? Do you have to enable the Linux sub-system for Windows and then download the distro form the Windows store? If so something I'd also like to ask is what are the downsides of enabling such a thing? Does it close down your boot time? Does it risk borking your computer etc?
It will be the windows subsystem for linux WSL. I use it very often. You need windows 10 >= 1709 (winver). Acitvate the wsl windows feature, download a linux version from the store and run the bash command. I don't have any problems yet.