Comments on: DragonFly, Cygwin, and PuTTY

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 19:54:08 +0000

In reply to Martin. Linux on Windows still feels wrong.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 19:46:04 +0000

Yes, VcXsrv is just the X-Server. If you want unix tools on your windows, you can install https://gitforwindows.org/ (again via chocolatey ;-), which brings a lot of often used tools along. I like it better than cygwin, although they share a common history.

Or you can install your favourite Linux Distro ( yeah, i know…)
1.) from the Microsoft Store
2.) manually (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual)
and use those. It works pretty well, in my use cases.

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 13:01:53 +0000

VcXsrv looks nice, but it doesn’t have all the other non-X software that cygwin does, does it?

I keep meaning to use Chocolatey more, which may provide that other material anyway.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 08:19:41 +0000

i would recommend VcXsrv (https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/), it is a nativ build of X.org for Windows, together with Putty (or even Kitty http://www.9bis.net/kitty/) you can uninstall cygwin for good. Btw. you can add all this softwareusing the Chocolatey “package manager” (https://chocolatey.org/).