THE SMART TRICK OF ACGWIN THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

The Cygwin DLL has a console driver that emulates a Unix-style terminal within the Windows console. Cygwin's default consumer interface would be the bash shell operating while in the Cygwin console. The DLL also implements pseudo terminal (pty) products. Cygwin ships with a number of terminal emulators which can be dependant on them, including mint