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Usually I use Cygwin. Have for many years. If I ever hear Bash on Windows gets a feature that doesn't have, maybe I'll check it out!
by lnanek2 10y ago
Usually I use Cygwin. Have for many years. If I ever hear Bash on Windows gets a feature that doesn't have, maybe I'll check it out!
- damieng 10y agoYou can apt-get anything you find on Ubuntu. There is no need to run setup.exe each time and hope somebody ported it to Cygwin.
- ISL 10y agoI don't think you can install anything X.
- JorgeGT 10y agoYes you can, I just tested xclock.
- meandthebean 10y agoYou can't apt-get in cygwin, but you can apt-cyg: https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg
- jheriko 10y agoi use cygwin as well, but there is enough cruft around the edges that i would drop it in a heartbeat for something more polished and less hacky. accidentally typing ls in a regular ol' windows command prompt leading to explosive crashes drives me slightly nuts from time to time for instance...
- stuxnet79 10y agoFrom what I've heard so far Bash on Windows is, right now, the exact opposite of polished. Cygwin does suck a lot of the times, but I've become used to its idiosyncrasies so I'm just waiting for all the kinks to be ironed out before switching.