Windows 7 also ships with Powershell.
Did anyone found it usable? I struggled to automate some recursive copy/filter of files. I don't remember that task taking that long to automate on Linux.
It's a doddle. You just have to install Cygwin and do it in bash.
Re:Microsoft is Dead (2007)
by giantrobothead on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @12:52PM
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Indeed.
I found PowerShell incredibly crunchy.
I will admit I was paid to drive hyperv from ruby remotely. What happened is that WinRM wasn't usable and that PowerShell was the lowest barrier mechanism to drive the functionality. It was nasty but thanks to WMI and some 3rd party PowerShell REPL that job was over. I wouldn't willingly give up Ruby much less Perl or Bash for PS. It seems like another "thumb their nose" CLR, C#, closed-source NIH proprietary lock-in tactic.
Years ago I wrote tons of jscript to silently deploy lots of software remotely, and it wasn't as slow to become "productive" at as PS.
1) Boot into desktop mode. This was introduced in 8.1 and definitely better for my uses than having to open a desktop from the metro UI in 8.0.
2) Win-f, I used to use win-r quite a bit to run programs quickly. However, with the changes MS has made with caching, win-f is just as fast and saves me from having to remember the commands for system preferences and the like.
3) Powershell. Win 8 ships with powershell and it's actually decent.
4) I have personally found it to run faster than win 7 as it shifts more UI load to the graphics card.