Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Re:Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated by freehunter on Thursday January 05, 2017 @08:46AM (#13327031)

I haven't used Powershell since Windows 7, but at least back then it was super slow to start. cmd.exe opens immediately, like a normal terminal emulator. Powershell took several seconds to open.

At least for me, if I'm opening the command line it's to get something done quicker and easier than I could with the GUI. Powershell wasn't that, at least on Windows 7.

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Re:Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated by greggyb on Thursday January 05, 2017 @10:33AM (#13327890)

Just for your reference, I've got Windows 10 and Powershell 5.1 running on an SSD (probably the only hardware that matters for program launch, really).

I can hit Win-X-I and start typing commands as fast as possible and Powershell is up instantly and I've never missed initial characters on a command. For interactive use, it's always there and up quickly.

This is in contrast to the typical start menu search which takes about a second before it registers keystrokes and I'm always searching for something missing the first few letters of the file or executable name.

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Re:Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated by ygra on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:53AM (#13327492)

Windows 7 shipped with PowerShell v2. So yes, back then it was slow. It's not anymore.

Side note: A terminal emulator is completely different from a shell (and on Windows (prior to 10 at least) there wasn't such a thing, but rather the console, which did not emulate a terminal).

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