Add OS note for Cygwin/MinGW

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 The OS for "Windows Subsystem for Linux" is reported as "WSL", even though uname identifies as "Linux".
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+The OS for Linux-like runtimes for Windows (e.g. MinGW, Cygwin) is obtained by running `uname -o`.
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 If `lsb_release` is not available, "distro" will be the ID specified in `/etc/os-release`.
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