Talk:Cygwin

Improving Cygwin and Windows cooperation
The book Windows Registry Hacks describes how to change the user directory for local computer users (e.g. not mapped from an active directory or Samba server):

Windows Registry Hacks/HKEY LOCAL MACHINE


 * The modification can be made with Cygwin's regtool:
 * and to display the values in the registry:
 * and to display the values in the registry:

Hunh?
I, and I'm sure most other beginners, would like to know more about this "improving" and "cooperation." I mean this is a hell of a note to start out on, that the thing we're dealing with, Cygwin, doesn't cooperate with the thing we're working in, Windows. Was gibt? And I'm not at all sure that "Cygwin" is an appropriate name for this Wikibooks Page. It's more of a minor squib about one small aspect of X11 than it is an article about Cygwin. If it's intended to help first time installers get their X11 right (and this is the flavour it has to me), then it should say what X11 is, and why this set of choices is going to present itself. As things stand right now, the page is not about Cygwin, it's not cler what it's supposed to be about, and this single suggestion about improving cooperation doesn't help much. David Lloyd-Jones (discuss • contribs) 09:29, 4 February 2014 (UTC)