YCOmega

I don't know, most of the people who are replying seem to be quite rude about it. I certainly judge software by the community and I'd hate to need a question answered by them. /s

As for actually trying it... I'd love to, but every time I do I come up against limitations. Mostly because none of the projects I use write shell scripts for powershell.

But again, that doesn't justify PS being the only one that gets any official attention on Windows, hence me mentioning msys2 earlier.

This "separate data from presentation" sounds like TCO-speak. Way too frequently referenced to be a genuine inspiration.

It's only "half bad" (if that even) because while the whole world moved on from Windows to Unix (OSX, Linux), Microsoft dug their heels in. Think of it as paying down long overdue technical debt.

Yeah, it went through a pile of rebrands until Windows 8 when it ended up getting pulled in one of the preview releases IIRC. I've wanted similar to you just so that people could target some kinda baseline on Windows with FOSS.

I mean, I get that coming from the other direction, powershell seems like a nice treat. And if you use it, colour me impressed. I know in some cases, it's the only option for doing script work on Windows machines. But there is a much bigger and more sane ecosystem waiting if MS just rallied around SFU again. Probably cheaper too, tell the investors that.

Microsoft is going about the whole SSH thing in a very backwards way.

If all they did was make or back an official POSIX environment, all of this comes for free.

Insisting that PowerShell be the focal point for all these changes is just bizarre.

Just install msys2.