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genuinely curious: with so much love for cygwin, why not just run Linux? possibly with a dual boot?
by bloppe 2y ago
genuinely curious: with so much love for cygwin, why not just run Linux? possibly with a dual boot?
- 3eb7988a1663 2y agoCorporate jobs are nearly always on Windows machines. Cygwin+GitBash can usually sneak past the gate without raising too many eyebrows. WSL is still voodoo dark mark that can require conversations to get IT to allow.
- freedomben 2y agoExactly. I have been running Linux on my personal computer for 15 years now. But frequently for work purposes and corporate jobs I have to work on Windows.
- oguz-ismail 2y agoSwitching between OSes is a hassle. Besides WSL already has all the loveable parts of Linux, there isn't much point in dual booting anymore
- coffeeindex 2y agoIf you’re using WSL, why use Cygwin?
- hylaride 2y agoIf you're at a very large corporation, Cygwin could have been approved decades ago, but WSL is still going through "auditing". WSL is still new enough that bureuocratic organizations haven't satisfied themselves enough that it can be secured or are just plain stubborn enough to not want the hassle. I refuse to work at large companies for this reason, but one company I worked for brought on a large American bank as a customer and their infosec terms for vendors essentially required their IT "standards" on us, which sucked as we were a Mac shop. It almost came to a head when all the developers were told they had to seek approval for upgrading their build tools.
- pdimitar 2y agoHow did that saga end?
- oguz-ismail 2y agoTo avoid using cmd.exe/PowerShell for stuff that needs to run natively. For example, when I used Linux I'd use this very small program named darkhttpd for sharing files among my computers over WiFi; when I switched to Windows I compiled it on Cygwin and it worked just as fine.