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Re:Sudo for Windows by al_borland on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:38AM (#39311753)
Either way it’s done it’s an issue. Use a new name and it becomes a training problem, even for the most basic usage. Make it the same name and people expecting certain behaviors might get something slightly different.

At a basic level, I’d wager a vast majority of sudo’s usage is very basic, “run this command as admin”. If it can do that out of the box, it solves for a vast majority of users and they don’t have to learn some kind of new cmdlet to be able to do it.

Re:Sudo for Windows by jraph on Friday February 09, 2024 @01:45AM (#39312118)
This can't fully address the concern I raised. Their curl alias addressed the most basic / common usage and it caused issues.

I also can't imagine a different name to cause such a training issue. We are speaking about people who learned using the terminal on Unix and are using it on Windows. They are likely at ease with computers. If they are confused by a name change, I can't imagine how confused they could be at the first difference they encounter. The same name might as well cause more training issues. I'm not convinced.