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I mostly agree. I have used cygwin for years when forced to use windows and have had mostly a great experience. In the article she mentions launching windows pr

I mostly agree. I have used cygwin for years when forced to use windows and have had mostly a great experience. In the article she mentions launching windows programs from the shell as if it's a great new thing... you could always do that from cygwin.... The only thing this gets you (i think) is not having to recompile programs.

damieng 9y ago
You get much more than that - you are installing native binaries direct from apt-get. No waiting for ports, patches, recompilation or people trying to get the latest version working on cygwin. It pulls binaries direct from Ubuntu as if you were on a Linux box and just runs them.