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A comment on Ask HN: What tools make using Windows more bearable (for Linux folk)?.

Re:Ask HN: What tools make using Windows more bearable (for ... by manbart on Friday November 26, 2021 @11:28PM (#29357418)
MSYS2. It’s bash+coreutils and a gcc/clang environment out of the box, and many more packages can be installed with pacman. And it doesn’t depend on POSIX emulation, it’s all native win32 builds of popular *nix tools (contrasted to Cygwin for example)
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Re:Ask HN: What tools make using Windows more bearable (for ... by guilhas on Sunday November 28, 2021 @01:14PM (#29371272)
Cygwin is faster and has way more packages
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