On 2011.03.21 10:16 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > I agree that Cygwin is a great system for Windows. I'm not sure of what > the minimal installation is because I usually install pretty much all of > it. I found Cygwin annoying since /everything/ depends on the base library. MinGW/MSYS is basically the same thing, except without that dependence. Anyway, I'm learning Python, and while it would be horrendous to do basic CLI things with the interpreter, I think I'll be able to do some really neat things that I couldn't do with bash in my scripts. I'll stick with bash for interactive use, but Python looks extremely useful for scripting. I decided to take a crack at PowerShell as well in order to poke around the internals of Windows. The Windows NT backend is extremely flexible, but there's a lack of good GUI tools to take advantage. And of course, there are times when a CLI is million times more efficient anyway.