I think your points are well articulated and educational to me as I am admittedly one of those Linux users that doesn't fully grasp/appreciate the cohesive natu

I think your points are well articulated and educational to me as I am admittedly one of those Linux users that doesn't fully grasp/appreciate the cohesive nature of the system-wide IPC you are describing (even if I was on Windows I would still just stay in the terminal for most of my applications). > sadly you have to drop away from the pipelines to fuse operations to get decent performance I used PowerShell as an example because it's currently an important part of the Windows ecosystem and works very well with piping. In my experience using PowerShell (on Linux) as my daily driver I haven't noticed performance losses in using pipelines. That being said, maybe I'm losing more resources by not optimizing every command I run, but so far I am pretty happy using PowerShell while heavily using pipelines.