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ars_nihili
3519 days ago
> You can also intall cygwin in windows which gives you a terminal on windows. Although there may be be a better program now than cygwin
Yes, like WSL, which OP is asking.
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LifeQuestioner
3519 days ago
Nothing wrong with broadening an answer, no need to be black and white. Cygwin has been around for ages.
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bitcrazed
3519 days ago
There's a big difference between Cygwin and Bash on Windows though: Cygwin is a Win32 port of the GNU tools, whereas Bash on Windows is a Linux kernel emulation layer that allows you to run unmodified Linux binaries directly on Windows.
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