I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion

Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by linuxftw on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:39AM (#46615946)

1. Just no. Unless you are some sort of Windows shop.

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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by rerdavies on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @09:39AM (#46616545)

If you're building for Windows, then bash is "just no", so it's either cmd/.bat, or pwsh/.ps. <shrugs>

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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by zabzonk on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:14AM (#46617836)

I develop on Windows. And I use bash and (gnu) make - combination that cannot be beat, in my experience.

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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by c-hendricks on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:30AM (#46618111)

All my windows work / ci runs still use bash.

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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by import on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @10:23AM (#46617063)

That’s the only reason for sure.

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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by pixl97 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @09:59AM (#46616778)

I mean, if you're a Windows shop you really should be using powershell.

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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by jayd16 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @02:31PM (#46621509)

Pwsh scripts are portable across mac, linux and windows with arguably less headache than bash. Its actually really nice. You should try it.

If you don't like it, you can get bash to work on windows anyway.

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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by NSPG911 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:32PM (#46625585)

you should try it, powershell isnt just 'type insanely long phrases', there are aliases for it

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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by latentsea on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:57PM (#46628228)

I've never been a fan of PowerShell. I work across Windows and Linux on .NET and Nuke has become my go to tool for this.

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