Beeing now at workstations running Windows XP more often, I was looking at cygwin again (did so some years ago..), because i can’t live without a shell… I would be satisfied having my Desktop via VNC, but exporting beryl via VNC is not possible AFAIK, so I need something different.
I really like cygwin. It is easy to install, and very fast set up. X on windows and SSH gives me everything I need ;-)