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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

And they still haven't even finished making PowerShell anywhere near as functional as Bash or any other Linux shell environment. First version of PowerShell came out exactly 10 years after the first version of NT.

I don't outright hate PowerShell but it's clearly a hacky afterthought after realizing Linux was eating their lunch in the server space via quick rollouts to thousands of computers at once through Bash scripting.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I find PS pretty great. Probably the best improvement to Windows since going 32-bit.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

For sure, it's a vast improvement, but there's still so much you can't do with it.

Mostly because unlike Bash and DOS, which are CLIs that get GUIs slapped on top, PowerShell is a CLI slapped on top of a GUI.