Should have lead that comment with "I'm on Windows, so".
Of course it's going to be miserable to use any command-line tool on Windows. It's Windows.
Of course it's going to be miserable to use any command-line tool on Windows. It's Windows.
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The major annoyances were packages were limited, compiling anything was generally a disaster and file permissions between linux/windows are a mess. I happily used it everyday though.
Obviously if you work in a cross-platform environment, cygwin/mingw is still the only thing that will provide you some sort of consistency in your workflow on Windows machines.