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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by NavinF on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:10AM (#26899712)
Ugh. Cygwin was such a pain back when it was the only option. It was yet another ABI and had all the breakage that implies. Even today, so many open source projects are full of ifdefs for cygwin.

I much prefer WSL1 and I've only run into a couple of issues over the last year (can't set Windows time from Linux and ssh-agent doesn't work out of the box) which is a significant improvement over cygwin or even a proper linux distro (which would occasionally boot to a black screen after updating anything related to X)

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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by flukus on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:48PM (#26909508)
The same or similar patches exist for WSL. One of the examples I gave was tail not working on windows files, cygwin has had a patch for years so it just works, ubuntu had to add the same or a similar patch to work in wsl.
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