Ubuntu on Windows

Posted Mar 30, 2016 23:27 UTC (Wed) by juliank (guest, #45896)
In reply to: Ubuntu on Windows by dowdle
Parent article: Ubuntu on Windows

cygwin requires you to recompile apps. this does not. that's a huge advantage. If I guess correctly, it's also implemented in kernel, so there's no performance overhead compared to native applications - cygwin on the other hand is hilariously slow.

Ubuntu on Windows

Posted Mar 31, 2016 0:14 UTC (Thu) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]

If I use Cygwin's package manager, I don't compile anything. It seems to have a fairly reasonable set of packages... at least for my limited tastes. I realize everything has been recompiled, but so what? So far as performance goes, I haven't really noticed a significant degradation... but then again, I haven't done much other than run some simple tools. Supposedly I/O is a lot slower... but then again, how is Ubuntu's userspace installed for Windows 10? In a directory tree on the host's filesystem? How many issues will that cause? Or are they using a disk image with native ext4 or something?

Again, Microsoft says it is for developers... and not really for users nor running server applications... and in that use case, they are probably similar. Except at this time, Cygwin's terminal emulation might be a tad better.