Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), you can launch Linux applications directly in a Windows 10 command prompt or PowerShell prompt.

This allows you to download a single file that can be copied to other computers in your office. If you use the wget or curl commands, you can download either the Linux or Windows versions of Firefox.

Here is how you can install CURL on Windows systems. It is preinstalled, or you can download it separately and add it to the path, and use it from anywhere.

The Windows version does allow a Windows client application built with Curl’s product to tap a Linux server, since the Curl product is “server agnostic,” he said. The Linux version of this ...