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A somewhat heavier version of cygwin, in which everything will work the way it's supposed to: http://www.centos.org

I kid, I kid...

Then there's always colinux - where you can have both, at the same time, without virtualization.

Colinux doesn't run in 64 bit Windows, unfortunately.

There is someone paying to do this port right now: https://www.odesk.com/jobs/Port-linux-bit_~~2416926dd8d9a963...

In my last job, I used colinux with Windows 7 and it was a match made in heaven. But when I moved, I had to choose the next best thing, which is Mac OS X, because of lack of support for 64-bit windows.

I was surprised that colinux wasn't more popular than it is. I remember thinking it was a pretty good idea when it was announced.

It has been on and off in its quality.

But then you can't run a decent Window Manager like Windows 7.

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