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by ams6110 3666 days ago
I honestly feel like I am missing something. What is the current excitement about bash on Windows? It's been available (and something I commonly use) via cygwin for years. And cygwin's bash can run .exe binaries.
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Cygwin is quite slow due to problems emulating fork (large builds take forever!), plus the package support is spotty. I'm excited because I can eventually ditch Cygwin and VMs for much of my Linux compatibility testing and cross-platform work. And I'm glad Microsoft is finally putting some effort into this long-neglected area.

For the moment, I'm still stuck with Cygwin, shaking my head a bit too.

Cygwin apps have to be compiled for Cygwin, as opposed to this Bash on Windows thing that runs Linux binaries out of the box :-)