[flukus]

Last time I tried it didn't even work well with cygwin, every app would take a minute to start up while it tried to talk to systemd.

[jhasse]

You shouldn't use cygwin, but MSYS2: http://www.msys2.org/

For Gedit you can just download it here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit It starts up immediately for me.

Inkscape and GIMP also have dedicated installers.