Being a somewhat C/C# inspired bracket syntax, Powershell's syntax is easily better than bash's schizophrenic usage of brackets and semi-colons. Somehow it seems that the people who measure their self worth and identity based on their proclivity for typing in a terminal are also the ones who bitch the most about how long cmdlet names are. I didn't realize Linux users were so allergic to typing (not to mentions aliases and auto-complete)