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On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 9:45 AM Jack Woehr via MIDRANGE-L
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
PS the gurus use CygWin scp.
I beg to differ. Cygwin hasn't been a popular environment for Windows,
even among "gurus", in quite a long time.
Today, the true gurus aren't Unix/Linux snobs. They just use what's
available and convenient, even if that is Windows.
For many folks who *happen to prefer* Linux but are working in
Windows, they use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to get a genuine
Linux.
Cygwin was sort of popular among people who really missed some Unix
command-line tools, but it was in that uncanny valley that wasn't
close enough to a true Unix that you could ever *not* feel the Windows
underpinnings. In some ways, it was a little like Qshell.
What popularity Cygwin did have was due to it being the only game in
town at the time; but even then, the *true* gurus just wiped Windows
off the disk and installed an actual Linux or BSD.
John Y.
midrange.com
