I used to make frequent use of the MKS Toolkit tools under MS-DOS (eventually using Desqview X, which I rather liked, back when the alternative was Windows 3.1, which wasn't worth my time). I found that they made my life under MS-DOS a whole lot easier, but I concur that they weren't enough to make the DOS box feel "like home". (Familiar enough, sure, since I was using MS-DOS well before I first got ahold of UNIX, but still...) For me, it's not stuff like using the middle button to paste, since I spend relatively little time in X and almost none of it sitting in front of a Linux or UNIX machine.
(The UNIX and Linux boxes are downstairs in the half of the living room I refer to as "the server room", because they don't much care whether I'm accessing them from their own keyboards or over the LAN. So most of what I do in X is using the Exceed X server under Windows NT (and I'm still looking for a copy of MacX). Yes, I get middle-button paste under Exceed, but I'm usually copying to or from a Windows app, so first I have to pick "copy clipboard to X selection" or vice-versa off a menu. The "feels like home" aspect of UNIX for me is mostly the command-line interface. All my favourite tools, and tcsh or csh. Perhaps part of my problem with MKS was that their shell was ... uh, either ksh or bash, I'm not sure -- ksh, I think.)
Fortunately, since I keep damn near everything on the file server, which the Windows boxes see via Samba, the Mac sees via Netatalk, and the other UNIX/Linux machines see via NFS, switching to UNIX just means clicking the mouse in one of the open Telnet windows.
Re: Fake-Unix vs Real-Unix
(The UNIX and Linux boxes are downstairs in the half of the living room I refer to as "the server room", because they don't much care whether I'm accessing them from their own keyboards or over the LAN. So most of what I do in X is using the Exceed X server under Windows NT (and I'm still looking for a copy of MacX). Yes, I get middle-button paste under Exceed, but I'm usually copying to or from a Windows app, so first I have to pick "copy clipboard to X selection" or vice-versa off a menu. The "feels like home" aspect of UNIX for me is mostly the command-line interface. All my favourite tools, and tcsh or csh. Perhaps part of my problem with MKS was that their shell was ... uh, either ksh or bash, I'm not sure -- ksh, I think.)
Fortunately, since I keep damn near everything on the file server, which the Windows boxes see via Samba, the Mac sees via Netatalk, and the other UNIX/Linux machines see via NFS, switching to UNIX just means clicking the mouse in one of the open Telnet windows.