Yes I have to use Windows at work and I use MSYS. It doesn't have "everything" like cygwin, but everything is a native win32 application and interop is much bet

Yes I have to use Windows at work and I use MSYS. It doesn't have "everything" like cygwin, but everything is a native win32 application and interop is much better. I do use their bash but mostly use cmd.exe with all the MSYS binaries in my path, so I ls and grep and tail all I want and also still use other native windows command-line programs seamlessly. The bash will interop with some programs but not everything.