Cloning files from GitHub is really easy whether you're using Windows or the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

A big barrier to widespread adoption of GitHub by Windows users has been the lack of friendly tooling to interact with the service. Most everything needed to be done through the command line and ...

GitHub has both paid, and free plans for its users. GitHub for Windows, which you can snag here, is 100% native, and supports Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 (in its current, beta format).

Perhaps inspired by GitHub's recent acquisition by Microsoft, a developer has released a user style for the code repository that transforms its interface into something resembling Windows from yore.