[lnanek2]

Usually I use Cygwin. Have for many years. If I ever hear Bash on Windows gets a feature that doesn't have, maybe I'll check it out!

[damieng]

You can apt-get anything you find on Ubuntu.

There is no need to run setup.exe each time and hope somebody ported it to Cygwin.

[meandthebean]

You can't apt-get in cygwin, but you can apt-cyg:

https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg

[ISL]

I don't think you can install anything X.

[JorgeGT]

Yes you can, I just tested xclock.

[alexeiz]

Sorry, xclock is not good enough. I need at least xeyes to work.

[JorgeGT]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d3jg06sr0tfaclc/Captura%20de%20pan...

[jheriko]

i use cygwin as well, but there is enough cruft around the edges that i would drop it in a heartbeat for something more polished and less hacky.

accidentally typing ls in a regular ol' windows command prompt leading to explosive crashes drives me slightly nuts from time to time for instance...

[stuxnet79]

From what I've heard so far Bash on Windows is, right now, the exact opposite of polished. Cygwin does suck a lot of the times, but I've become used to its idiosyncrasies so I'm just waiting for all the kinks to be ironed out before switching.