In one of my customer project I have to use a Windows 11 system. In 2023, it should be not a problem as a Linux fan to work on a Windows system, because I could install WSL2 and the story would end on this point. Because of reasons, it is not allowed and not possible to install WSL2 on my system, so I fall back to …

I like to use Cygwin for having a bash shell on a windows machine. In combination with Console2 you have a powerful command-line tool for windows. I'd like to describe how to install Cygwin and Console2 under windows 7 (I think this instruction works on Windows XP, too) and how to embed Cygwin in Console2. I used for …