I used Cygwin for a long time and the main issue was fairly poor performance. WSL-1 is a significant step up in that sense, and WSL-2 blows them both out of the

I used Cygwin for a long time and the main issue was fairly poor performance. WSL-1 is a significant step up in that sense, and WSL-2 blows them both out of the water. There are trade-offs, they all still seem to have their place.