Yes, I was using Cygwin a decade ago - it was the most painful experience. It's got nothing to do with Git - just that Git bundles the most up to date versions

Yes, I was using Cygwin a decade ago - it was the most painful experience. It's got nothing to do with Git - just that Git bundles the most up to date versions of GNU tools compiled for Windows. There were pre-cursors to Git, but Git packages them all nicely. Just for sentimental reasons I love using DOS, same as any Linux user loves their shell. So having the tools natively in DOS is a much nicer experience.