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• unnouinceput 4y ago
  Fucking finally somebody that says cygwin. Everybody nowadays is "wsl2 this, wsl2 that" but they forget that the OG, which still blows wsl2, it's CygWin. I use it for 2 decades, one of the 2 programs I install whenever I need to use somebody else (usually client) PC; the other one is uBlock Origin.
  • anta40 4y ago
    Why? Because WSL = running Linux on top for Windows, so expect a performance hit? Many many years ago during undergraduate days, I used Cygwin (before being introduced to VirtualBox) to provide a UNIX-y coding environment on my Windows PC. And on these days I prefer docker :D
    • nsonha 4y ago
      backwhen WSl wasn't a virtual machine, it's made sense and had some advantage over CygWin