VMs can share host volumes, Cygwin can suddenly become buggy and has no release (it is currently doing shit with ACL on my install, to the point of being unusab

VMs can share host volumes, Cygwin can suddenly become buggy and has no release (it is currently doing shit with ACL on my install, to the point of being unusable, and this seems to have affected other people too), so is not completely suitable for team work, SSD are fast and modern Linux distro really fast to boot, and there is basically nothing to do to maintain a modern mainstream Linux distro (although you have to avoid distro like Mint too much oriented in GUI/UX and not enough in core system engineering and stability, but they would not give you anything critical in a VM anyway, because I your graphical stuff should be done mainly in your host) You might want Cygwin for some reasons, but for me that would not be those you gave compared to a VM (disclaimer, I use both, at least when Cygwin is working...)