That’s odd.
When I run these in VS Code on my Win10 2004 I get this
SYSTEMROOT='C:\WINDOWS'
...
TERM=cygwin
TERM_PROGRAM=vscode
TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=1.49.0
TMP=/cygdrive/c/Users/me/AppData/Local/Temp
WINDIR='C:\WINDOWS'
_=env
bash-4.4$ where make
C:\Users\me\.particle\toolchains\buildtools\1.1.1\bin\make.exe
bash-4.4$ where bash
C:\Users\me\.particle\toolchains\buildtools\1.1.1\bin\bash.exe
C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe
and my path features numerous :/cygdrive/c/Users/...
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