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Cygwin vs Windows 10

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Overview

Cygwin
Cygwin
Stacks27
Followers27
Votes0
GitHub Stars23
Forks7
Windows 10
Windows 10
Stacks403
Followers379
Votes14

Windows 10 vs Cygwin: What are the differences?

What is Windows 10? The most secure Windows ever built. It is the latest iteration of the Microsoft operating systems and has been optimized for home PC performance in a wide variety of applications from serious work to after-hours gaming.

What is Cygwin? A way to run native Linux apps on Windows. It is a POSIX-compatible environment that runs natively on Microsoft Windows. Its goal is to allow programs of Unix-like systems to be recompiled and run natively on Windows with minimal source code modifications by providing them with the same underlying POSIX API they would expect in those systems.

Windows 10 and Cygwin can be primarily classified as "Operating Systems" tools.

Some of the features offered by Windows 10 are:

  • Security
  • Fast
  • Efficient

On the other hand, Cygwin provides the following key features:

  • A dynamic-link library
  • API compatibility layer
  • Color Depths

Cygwin is an open source tool with 27 GitHub stars and 6 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Cygwin's open source repository on GitHub.

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Advice on Cygwin, Windows 10

Gopi
Gopi

Jun 21, 2020

Decided

I liked manjaro a lot, the huge support it has and the variety of tools it provides is just awesome. But due to its parent platform being Arch Linux it has bleeding-edge technology and that meaning, we get updated 'daily', and if we keep updating the system daily, due to the bugs in the recent updates the system sometimes used to crash, this made the OS really unstable. However, one can avoid such crashes using periodical and careful system/package updates. I now use LinuxMint which is based on Ubuntu, and this OS is completely stable with reliable(mostly tested) updates. And, since this OS is backed up by UBUNTU the concerns/questions one can encounter while using the OS can be easily rectified using the UBUNTU community, which is pretty good. Though this is backed up on UBUNTU it most certainly does NOT include the proprietary stuff of UBUNTU, which is on the bright side of the OS. That's it! Happy Computing.

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Govind
Govind

Aug 5, 2020

Decided

Ubuntu is much more faster over Windows and helps to get software and other utilities easier and within a short span of time compared to Windows.

Ubuntu helps to get robustness and resiliency over Windows. Ubuntu runs faster than Windows on every computer that I have ever tested. LibreOffice (Ubuntu's default office suite) runs much faster than Microsoft Office on every computer that I have ever tested.

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Detailed Comparison

Cygwin
Cygwin
Windows 10
Windows 10

It is a POSIX-compatible environment that runs natively on Microsoft Windows. Its goal is to allow programs of Unix-like systems to be recompiled and run natively on Windows with minimal source code modifications by providing them with the same underlying POSIX API they would expect in those systems.

It is the latest iteration of the Microsoft operating systems and has been optimized for home PC performance in a wide variety of applications from serious work to after-hours gaming.

A dynamic-link library; API compatibility layer; Color Depths
Security; Fast; Efficient
Statistics
GitHub Stars
23
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
7
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
27
Stacks
403
Followers
27
Followers
379
Votes
0
Votes
14
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet
Pros
  • 4
    Slow
  • 3
    On 4gb other applications less likely to run smoothly
  • 2
    Best for Indonesian PC Users
  • 2
    The best developer tools for all devices
  • 1
    Editors choice. But not suitable on 4gb ram. Alth
Cons
  • 4
    Slow, slow and slow
  • 3
    Worst OS to run on 2GB of RAM
  • 3
    Lags really much on low end devices
  • 2
    Can't fix bugs yourself
  • 1
    Acts posh
Integrations
Linux Kernel
Linux Kernel
Linux
Linux
Dropbox
Dropbox
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop
Slack
Slack
NetBeans IDE
NetBeans IDE
Android Studio
Android Studio
FileZilla
FileZilla
IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA
Eclipse
Eclipse
Adobe XD
Adobe XD
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator

What are some alternatives to Cygwin, Windows 10?

Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Debian

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Arch Linux

Arch Linux

A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Fedora

Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.

Linux Mint

Linux Mint

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.

CentOS

CentOS

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.

Linux

Linux

A clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.

CoreOS

CoreOS

It is designed for security, consistency, and reliability. Instead of installing packages via yum or apt, it uses Linux containers to manage your services at a higher level of abstraction. A single service's code and all dependencies are packaged within a container that can be run on one or many machines.

Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux

It is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.

Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

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