Cygwin Reviews and details

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• Groovy 🎷 Cheat Sheet - 01 Say "Hello" from Groovy

  Alternatively, you can use sdkman. A great tool to install your Software Development Kit. The downside is that it only works on *nix systems. So for Widnows users, you will have to use WSL or Cygwin as the official page suggests. It is really simple to use sdkman. After a successful installation, just type those commands into your *nix shell:. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• How do you even get started programming in c++ on Windows?

  You could try Cygwin. I never leave home without it. Source: about 1 year ago

• What exactly IS gitbash?

  It's launching MSYS2, which is in turn based on cygwin, which is a collection of common Linux utilities built for windows and an incomplete POSIX abstraction layer. Source: over 1 year ago

• Kind of an obvious design flaw

  IME, not really? Git for Windows or MSYS2 are both pretty solid. I used Cygwin for years, but MSYS2 seems to integrate a bit more smoothly (plus MSYS uses pacman instead of Cygwin's fiddly gui for package management). Source: over 1 year ago

• WSL - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS using a ton of memory?

  Try Cygwin or Msys2, they are not running virtual machines. For Bash and Neovim only you probably don't want to run a whole virtual machine. Source: over 1 year ago

• Software Freedom Conservancy: Heads up! Microsoft is on track to ban all commercial activity by FOSS projects on Microsoft Store in about a week!

  Cygwin has been around since the early 2000's and does everything wsl does but better. Its a Foss alternative to wsl. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Script to copy data

  You can use the Linux Subsystem for Windows, or my favorite which is cygwin to get a full, robust, bash shell in Windows. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Being forced to give up Emacs at work

  As an alternative, if you are approved and allowed to install Cygwin, that is a feasible solution. Cygwin's setup package has an option to install Emacs in the usual locations. Source: about 2 years ago

• Why can't I run this library on my compiler?

  That is not MinGW. Try actually installing MinGW or even better, install MinGW-64 via Cygwinor MSYS2. Source: over 2 years ago

• Windows 7 is joining Windows XP...

  That's basically Windows Subsystem For Linux before Microsoft came up with its own solution for Windows 10. It existed for a longer time with Cygwin https://cygwin.com/. Source: over 2 years ago