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my recollection from my windows times, is that cygwin is a pain to install and slow too, so there is no free lunch.

• rbanffy 12y ago
  > is a pain to install They have a setup.exe that downloads the components you select. I gather it's not as painless as "apt-get install cygwin" would be, but it's as painless as installing Windows software is. > and slow too They are painting a Linux-environment on top of a Windows OS. That's no small feat. In return you get a sensible file space, a decent command line and all the development tools you'd need on Linux. It's slower than a Linux box running on the metal, but it's as fast as a VM would be and has direct access to the host operating system (and, for me, a working Python environment where I can simply say "pip install ipython" and everything just works. I would not even consider working from Windows without it.