I’m currently learning how to use Linux utilities as part of my workflow via MSYS2 on Windows OS, and I learned (if my understanding is correct) that the Git which comes with MSYS2 is compiled with Cygwin, and therefore calls POSIX APIs as it runs, which MSYS2 has to emulate. This causes the Git that comes with MSYS2 to run “quite a bit slower”, according to the MSYS2 website. I also found people on Reddit complaining that it’s slow.