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Can anyone please tell if Windows SubSystem for Linux coexists well with Cygwin64 and/or msys? I have Cygwin64 installed. I don't use it a lot but it helps to run some deployment bash scripts which otherwise won't run on Windows. So it will be good to know if Windows SubSystem for Linux messes up with it or not.

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Both run fine next to each other. The only conflict I can think of is if you don't call "bash" via a complete path, but rather rely on PATH environment variable.

Btw. any reason you are not running those bash scripts in WSL now?

Thanks for the info. Didn't try the WSL yet. Was afraid to break the workflows which are already working.

Planning to give WSL a shot soon.

You can actually install mingw for Linux in WSL and cross-compile win32 binaries, which is pretty funny.

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