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Usually I use Cygwin. Have for many years. If I ever hear Bash on Windows gets a feature that doesn't have, maybe I'll check it out!

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You can apt-get anything you find on Ubuntu.

There is no need to run setup.exe each time and hope somebody ported it to Cygwin.

I don't think you can install anything X.

Yes you can, I just tested xclock.

Sorry, xclock is not good enough. I need at least xeyes to work.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d3jg06sr0tfaclc/Captura%20de%20pan...

You can't apt-get in cygwin, but you can apt-cyg:

https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg

i use cygwin as well, but there is enough cruft around the edges that i would drop it in a heartbeat for something more polished and less hacky.

accidentally typing ls in a regular ol' windows command prompt leading to explosive crashes drives me slightly nuts from time to time for instance...

From what I've heard so far Bash on Windows is, right now, the exact opposite of polished. Cygwin does suck a lot of the times, but I've become used to its idiosyncrasies so I'm just waiting for all the kinks to be ironed out before switching.

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