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>Only the smallest fraction of Windows PCs have these layers enabled/correctly configured, for it to run.

I have never had any trouble running either MSYS2 or Cygwin on Windows computers even when the amount of privileges given to my account has been very low.

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The website to MSYS2 was blocked by my high school's firewall. I think Cygwin used Sourceforge, which was arbitrarily filtered for badware risk. There were other ways of fixing that, but my point is… it'a good to have alternatives, and the browser ensures good portability.

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