> Cygwin was the way to have a Unix-like environment on Windows before the Linux subsystem existed. Still is. See LibreOffice's first attempt to build using W

> Cygwin was the way to have a Unix-like environment on Windows before the Linux subsystem existed. Still is. See LibreOffice's first attempt to build using WSL instead of Cygwin: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2017-April/077558.html https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2017-Apri... I'm still entirely unconvinced WSL replaces Cygwin for what Cygwin does and is useful for.