Cygwin

“Good that there is Cygwin, so I could move most stuff there.”

“Cygwin on Windows 7 was how I computed until moving to Linux”

“it's like windows caught ze Linux virus, and it's a good virus”

“exposes just how bad native toolchains like Cygwin and git bash are”

“Cygwin was awesome though, saved me a ton of time and the client a lot of money”

“Cygwin mostly papered over that from what I can recall, but it could lead to some weirdness”

“cygwin allowed me to keep the scripts as they were and trigger them in place”

“it got you like....grep and bash and stuff that ran natively on windows which was kinda cool”

“using the cygwin method is supported and should be working fine”

“Cygwin punishes you hard for unnecessary fork().”

“giving Windows a more refined developer experience”

“Cygwin does many unholy things to enable signals and fork syscall in binaries.”

“the linux ports (cygwin, msys2, git bash) are all great to have”

“That's what I've used on Windows since it was available.”

“Cygwin still sucks regardless of whose fault it is”

“I have used cygwin for 30 years and never had any dll hell issues, because all the programs came from the cygwin installer.”

“Cygwin was also notorious for being really out of date. Security vulnerabilities and missing features were both very common at one point.”

“NTFS filesystem access is actually a lot faster on cygwin than WSL2”

“That's fake cooperative emulation of signals. It isn't preemptive”

“wondering why people raved about this tool that ran so slowly”

“needs to cleanly coexist side-by-side with existing Cygwin installations and optionally support silent install/upgrade/uninstall”

“Cygwin still lacks that to this day, you have to fire up to GUI installer to update packages.”

“that cygwin1.dll (plus any dependencies) is a problem for distribution.”

“could clobber the versions you have otherwise”

“Cygwin is a crazy approach, was slow (contrary to the implication of the "low cruft" claim)”

“Requiring every single Linux app developer to recompile their app using Cygwin and account for quirks that it may have is not the correct approach.”

“Signals have worked fine for a long time under Cygwin.”

“Just use ssh from Cygwin. DLL hell was rarely a problem, just always install everything via setup.exe.”

“there's a lot of hoop jumping and hackery to get the right semantics”

“The problem with Cygwin as I remember it was DLL hell.”

“Cygwin was technically the correct approach: native POSIX binaries on Windows rather than hacking in some foreign Linux plumbing.”

“Cygwin was so much work but you’re still stuck in windows.”

“so I could use bash and all my favorite utilities”

“So are Cygwin and WSL, though, for those who don't already have the luxury of being on Linux or UNIX”

“Cygwin is nice, but it's a Frankenstein's monster.”

“contains a lot of complex inefficient hacks to do things which Microsoft could do much more easily”

“It works well, if you mind the limitiations”

“I even still prefer it to WSL depending on what I'm doing.”

“OneCore patched XP with MSYS2/MinGW/Cygwin with Bash, gnu tooling and the pacman package manager.”

“disentangling the build system from Unixisms that require Cygwin”