diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7b59b6830e..c1bbb77709 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 - Ship a [zipapp](https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html) of pipx
 
 - Change the program name to `path/to/python -m pipx` when running as `python -m pipx`
+- Improve the detection logic for MSYS2 to avoid entering infinite loop (#908)
 - Remove extra trailing quote from exception message
 
 ## 1.1.0
diff --git a/src/pipx/constants.py b/src/pipx/constants.py
index 34b2ea9740..6373b660ae 100644
--- a/src/pipx/constants.py
+++ b/src/pipx/constants.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import os
 import sys
+import sysconfig
 from pathlib import Path
 from textwrap import dedent
 from typing import NewType, Optional
@@ -38,7 +39,12 @@ def is_windows() -> bool:
     return sys.platform == "win32"
 
 
+def is_mingw() -> bool:
+    return sysconfig.get_platform() == "mingw"
+
+
 WINDOWS: bool = is_windows()
+MINGW: bool = is_mingw()
 
 completion_instructions = dedent(
     """
diff --git a/src/pipx/util.py b/src/pipx/util.py
index 5c872fcb83..b390fffe28 100644
--- a/src/pipx/util.py
+++ b/src/pipx/util.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 import pipx.constants
 from pipx.animate import show_cursor
-from pipx.constants import PIPX_TRASH_DIR, WINDOWS
+from pipx.constants import MINGW, PIPX_TRASH_DIR, WINDOWS
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ def run_pypackage_bin(bin_path: Path, args: List[str]) -> NoReturn:
 if WINDOWS:
 
     def get_venv_paths(root: Path) -> Tuple[Path, Path]:
-        bin_path = root / "Scripts"
+        bin_path = root / "Scripts" if not MINGW else root / "bin"
         python_path = bin_path / "python.exe"
         return bin_path, python_path