How to code on own computer? HELP

Question

Hi, I’m currently learning C and I want to practice coding on my own computer. I work in vs code but my computer is Windows. It doesn’t listen to certain commands like chmod and I also can’t compile my code bc it doesn’t understand gcc. I already downloaded the C extension and also Linux I think. But idk what else to download on my computer to get it to listen to mostly basic and common used commands for terminal.

Answer 1

A Windows terminal won't listen to Linux commands, mostly.

Do you mean you have set up a Linux subsystem on Windows following these instructions?
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/config-wsl

Answer 2

learning C on windows with free and opensource tools:
Code::Blocks
CodeLite
DevC++
Notepad++
Geany
Eclipse (not only for C)
NetBeans (not only for C)
VSCodium and vscode are multi purpose editors.

some Linux commands you can run in GitBash, it is configurable with windows terminal.

I can't really help you in some things, I'm a Linux "user". started using about 20 years ago, but about 12-13 years ago switched to use Fedora GNU/Linux as my main system. the other Linux I'm using is almost 100% Debian (my wife uses a clear Debian, and her secondary system is Fedora)