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Cygwin is literally what you describe - some companies (usually engineering firms who make high-end CAD software and the like) use to ship their Linux based too
by torginus 9mo ago
Cygwin is literally what you describe - some companies (usually engineering firms who make high-end CAD software and the like) use to ship their Linux based tooling on Windows, you can use it, and most Linux CLI tools run on top of it.
It works well, if you mind the limitiations, but it has existed for a long time, and I don't think it's been a huge game changer.
- skissane 9mo agoCygwin literally isn't what I describe, because it is an additional layer of code which isn't supported by Microsoft, doesn't come with Windows, and contains a lot of complex inefficient hacks to do things which Microsoft could do much more easily.