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When I last tried installing cygwin it was horrific. The ui was awful, and involved manually clicking loads of boxes via a clunky ui. Next to impossible to repr

• auganov 11y ago
  What's your use case? My intuition is telling me you want it to be something it's not :PP I use it exclusively for CLI stuff via Mintty (the default terminal emulator). The installation just extracts the basic files and lets you download packages. Yes, setup.exe as a package manager is clunky. There's a third party thing called "cyg-apt" it's not that great but works. Personally I just went ahead and downloaded all available packages (just excluded a bunch that were a few GB large). My 100 most used command: https://gist.github.com/auganov/1242885dbd452db05a47 https://gist.github.com/auganov/1242885dbd452db05a47
  • dave2000 11y ago
    It was a shitty development system for a POS system. Yes, it was too large to want to download everything but no programmatic way to tell it what you wanted (you'd think that someone that aped how a proper os worked would understand the need for complete command line control of installation, wouldn't you) and yes, it's been 3 years now but I remember the package manager looking like something someone knocked up in 3 minutes and meant to get around to fixing but never quite managed it. I think if you uninstalled and reinstalled it it even remember some of the previous values, making it very hard to retrace your steps with a view to scripting (on paper) what needed to be clicked on, so nobody else had quite the same subset of packages as me.