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Originally Posted by Ruskie_it
Oh no, that would be like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. 
Besides, vm are way slower, in principle, cause they have to emulate a processor. Cygwin or gow, they use unix command, but compiled natively for Windows environment. |
Yeah, but the tradeoffs are pretty decent. A proper apt-get/yum/pacman, no having to setup weird stuff in ~/.inputrc so you can use the arrow keys properly, full access to EVERYTHING....
As long as your computer is good enough to run it well, and some are.
<randomrant>I have yet to figure out how to mount a USB drive with its partition label under Cygwin!
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