<p>I've got it configured, but I want more from it...maybe Cygwin isn't the right tool, but I like how it provides a *nix-like environment within Windows.</p>

[{'answer_id': 56439, 'author': 'David Mohundro', 'author_id': 4570, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4570', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I\'m quite interested in this question myself. I\'ve used the <a href="https://code.google.com/archive/p/jessies/wikis/CygwinSetup.wiki" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Cygwin Setup guide</a> to get set up, but it doesn\'t get you all the way. One thing that I learned from it, though, is that it recommends leaving the setup.exe in the directory with Cygwin so that you can quickly add packages, since apt-get apparently doesn\'t work that well in Cygwin. The article also talks about cyg-get as an alternative.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 56451, 'author': 'Craig Hyatt', 'author_id': 5808, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5808', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>I\'ve found Cygwin to be very useful in the past.  FWIW, lately however I\'ve shied away from it in favor of the following:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">XAMPP</a></li>\n<li><a href="http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Unixutils</a></li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>I like these tools even better.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 56463, 'author': 'Luke Girvin', 'author_id': 133, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/133', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If you\'ve already read the <a href="http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Cygwin User Guide</a>, take a look at <a href="http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2006/08/14/ten_steps_to_higher_cygwin_productivity.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ten Steps To Higher Cygwin Productivity</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Also, if you\'re using a shell such as bash in Cygwin, and you\'re familiar with Emacs, consider using <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Eshell</a> (the Emacs shell) instead.</p>\n'}]
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