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		tsahyt on Aug 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What killed the Linux desktop If Unix is what you want, you shouldn't be using a system that isn't Unix (or Unix-like in the case of Linux). However, there's still Cygwin which is reasonably good.

Derbasti on Aug 30, 2012 [–]

Except that it is dog slow, horribly out of date, neither really compatible with Windows nor Unix paths, and lacking support for graphical stuff.

Well, I use msys and eshell instead, which I find less jarring.

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