Are there any resources for becoming a Cygwin “power user”? [closed]

Question

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.

Answer 1

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:

1. XAMPP
2. Unixutils

I like these tools even better.

Answer 2

If you've already read the Cygwin User Guide, take a look at Ten Steps To Higher Cygwin Productivity.

Also, if you're using a shell such as bash in Cygwin, and you're familiar with Emacs, consider using Eshell (the Emacs shell) instead.

Answer 3

I'm quite interested in this question myself. I've used the Cygwin Setup guide 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.