This is something which baffles me as a +15yrs "linux guy" who thought to know what kind of ecosystem the big desktop OS brings: MS Windows is really rich in to

This is something which baffles me as a +15yrs "linux guy" who thought to know what kind of ecosystem the big desktop OS brings: MS Windows is really rich in tooling, both in terms of desktop and command line tools. And there is similar bloat as with Linux: I never heard of wmic.exe before, but the fact that it can be used to manage network interfaces sounds similarly fucked up as the linux story (/sbin/ifconfig, /sbin/ip, the unloved network manager, resolv.d, etc. pp). Just to give another example: mshta.exe was basically the Electron platform but in early 2000. And it was shipped right out of the box. That's very elegant. Since I have an addition to write tools which solve problems they were not intended to solve (violating Unix philosophy), I admire that wmic.exe can use XSLT to generate reports. Of course, PowerShell solves the problem of structured output in a better way. A contemporary Unix tool would simply have the option for JSON output and that's it. But including an XSL processor which even executes scripting languages... hilarious!