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I know you're snark is par for the course here, but if you ever do Windows sysadmin work and you need to do some stuff on Windows that is unavoidable, Cygwin ma

by 616c 13y ago

I know you're snark is par for the course here, but if you ever do Windows sysadmin work and you need to do some stuff on Windows that is unavoidable, Cygwin makes it much better. Even there terminal app, which can go fullscreen with tail, is worth debugging stuff. Try doing that with PowerShell and get-content -wait YourFileName.txt. I have literally waited minutes after a program exited while PS tries to keep up. But what do I know, I use Cygwin. Also see why Linux != Cygwin below.

csmuk 13y ago
I don't think it makes it any easier. To be honest (as someone who deploys a lot of Windows machines) PowerShell only makes it fractionally easier. There are always packages and bits of software that just don't have a programming interface at all (not even COM) at which point you are, to use the technical term, fucked whether you use PS or Cygwin. The platform as a whole stinks for programmability and I hate working with it.