Ask HN: What should Microsoft do to change geek opinion?

Re:Ask HN: What should Microsoft do to change geek opinion? by frozenport on Thursday March 19, 2015 @10:34AM (#9232172)

I want the linux tools I am familiar with. This means a useful cmd, different FS layout and a gcc/icc style interface for MSVC.

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Re:Ask HN: What should Microsoft do to change geek opinion? by Someone1234 on Thursday March 19, 2015 @01:21PM (#9233341)

cmd is deprecated, and has been replaced by Powershell (in 2009, six years ago!).

What file system layout would you want? UNIX? Does anybody think the current way the UNIX FS is used makes any rational sense? It is a giant disjointed mess, with a great deal of misusage by developers and users alike.

Microsoft could dispose of e.g. Program Files, Program Files (x86), Common Files, and also re-organise %AppData% and %windir% a decent amount. Remounting on / wouldn't provide much benefit (and technically Windows NT actually is mounted at \ they just use the root context for object storage, not files).

They have been trying some re-organisation with the Windows 8 "app" system. But since that has not been very successful neither has the project seen many results. Essentially they're siloing apps in the same way mobile devices do e.g. iOS apps/Android apps, etc.

SVC already is completely driven from the command line already (there is no UI).

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Re:Ask HN: What should Microsoft do to change geek opinion? by frozenport on Thursday March 19, 2015 @08:30PM (#9235568)

>>cmd is deprecated, and has been replaced by Powershell

I don't want powershell, I want the things I'm used to. For example, Mac OS gives me that.

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Re:Ask HN: What should Microsoft do to change geek opinion? by pjungwir on Thursday March 19, 2015 @03:53PM (#9234181)

Command-line ssh & scp would be awesome. Also something like wget/curl. In general for TCP/IP there is still just almost nothing.

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Re:Ask HN: What should Microsoft do to change geek opinion? by Someone1234 on Thursday March 19, 2015 @04:21PM (#9234354)

Windows has wget. Well technically it has Powershell alias for Invoke-WebRequest, however if you type "wget example.com/file.exe -OutFile file.exe" it will do what you expect. It also has Invoke-RestMethod and System.Net.WebClient.UploadFile( 'http://example.com/submit', $filename ).

> In general for TCP/IP there is still just almost nothing.

No clue what that means or what it is in reference to.

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