Agree on your 2nd & 3rd bullets, but I would have so very little faith in the 1st happening with any good success
What drove me to mac was the little bugs here and there when trying to do things with cygwin
What drove me to linux (both ubuntu and debian) was the little bugs here and there when trying to do things with ports/brew
I'm back on windows now (because the linux desktop is just lagging behind in areas) only I'm using a VM to run linux shell. Now I get all the nice gui but can still run shell with no hiccups. (I could have gone back to mac and done VM too, but I just prefer windows)
Indeed - I always have at least one Linux VM running on my Windows Workstation. I found, that when I really want the nice posix tool chain, that was a more satisfactory approach than futzing with cygwin all the time. Perhaps that should be my long term windows solution - thanks.
What drove me to mac was the little bugs here and there when trying to do things with cygwin
What drove me to linux (both ubuntu and debian) was the little bugs here and there when trying to do things with ports/brew
I'm back on windows now (because the linux desktop is just lagging behind in areas) only I'm using a VM to run linux shell. Now I get all the nice gui but can still run shell with no hiccups. (I could have gone back to mac and done VM too, but I just prefer windows)