Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:24:29 -0500, Joel wrote:
 

It's just too funny, I'm running Forte Agent under Wine, you're running
vim under Cygwin.  Couldn't be more equal and opposite.

 
Cygwin isn't necessary for gVim under Windows.

  Indeed it isn't, but - as I later mentioned - I use tin as my
newsreader and I mentioned 'GNU', meaning all the GNU tools/commands/
etc.. Granted, most of the latter can also be gotten as 'native' Windows
executables, but probably not with a 'package manager' such as Cygwin
has.

  If I was starting now/recently, I would probably use WSL (Windows
Subsystem for Linux), but I already used similar stuff in the 80s, so
Cygwin was the logical choice for Windows.