My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

Re:My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore by red-iron-pine on Saturday June 22, 2024 @08:36AM (#40758682)

powershell is light years easier than bash. like, im fluent in bash enough to get stuff done, but i only got there over years, while i picked up powershell fairly quickly. also wayyyyy more readable.

i'll admit the object vs text thing is annoying, i feel like bash is more straightforward there, but PS will let you do the same thing eventually.

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Re:My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore by nativeit on Saturday June 22, 2024 @12:49PM (#40760355)

My experience is almost exactly inverted. WTF is Invoke? Am I a sorcerer? I want to call a function, I think…

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Re:My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore by sandreas on Saturday June 22, 2024 @01:38PM (#40760698)

I would have thought Microsoft on is dotnet multi-platform journey would find a way to make PowerShell just POSIX compatible, supporting at least standard all day commands like `grep`, `wc`, `find` and others. All it would have taken is to create aliases or replacements for the top 50 shell commands.

Instead they re-invented the wheel. It's not a bad wheel, but the wheel is completely different than most people would expected to be and for POSIX enthusiast it just does not feel right.

With wsl or git bash you can do this but it feels slow and clunky most of the time.

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