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

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.