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That's actually the only reason holding me back as well. Cygwin is not very tempting.
by michaelmcmillan 11y ago
That's actually the only reason holding me back as well. Cygwin is not very tempting.
- tiedmann 11y agoAnd then there's vagrant. I switched back to MS because C# and profit, all other dev is on vagrant boxes which actually made things easier as I tend to be more comfortable with that what I push will work as I have the same *nix setup on my 127.0.01 as on remote.
- michaelmcmillan 11y agoTrue, I had not thought of that. Any shortcomings?
- joe5150 11y agoVagrant under VirtualBox is a little slow, but taking the time to set up WinNFSd is very worthwhile for real file I/O gains. If you want to pay for VMWare + VMWare's Vagrant plugin, you'll get even better performance.
- ygra 11y agoSupposedly you can also use Hyper-V which is included by default on Windows 8 and later. But since the time I found that I didn't yet have a need for vagrant again.
- joe5150 11y agoI'm currently on Win10 Home, but I use Vagrant so extensively that it's probably worth an upgrade (besides that, it provides a lot of other great features, anyway).
- wvenable 11y agoCygwin is terrible but there are alternatives, such as: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow Which work extremely well. I can go back and forth between Debian and windows without too much trouble. Many tools are cross platform.
- arm 11y agoHow is Cygwin terrible exactly? It’s fast and lightweight (compared to other recommendations like MobaXterm) and has a huge selection of packages¹. Frankly, I don’t get why Cygwin gets so much flack; I’m glad it exists. ―――――― ¹ — http://cygwinports.org/ http://cygwinports.org/
- voltagex_ 11y agoAlso msys2 which is well maintained.