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I have had so many people tell me how fantastic PowerShell is. Not a single one of them was ever a *nix user. PowerShell is getting better with a tab completion

I have had so many people tell me how fantastic PowerShell is. Not a single one of them was ever a *nix user. PowerShell is getting better with a tab completion of sorts but it is still a headache to figure out commands without web search. I try to force myself to use PowerShell as often as possible, but continuously find myself going back to a GUI. I have the opposite problem when using Linux.

ossreality 11y ago
I hate Windows. I spent 90% of my life in Unix. Powershell is fantastic. I'm not joking. Do you have any actual criticisms?
aesthetics1 11y ago
I think this comes from being unfamiliar with it. Want to know what you can do with network adapters? Run Get-Help AD to see every cmdlet containing AD, and narrow your search from there. Get-Help auto-updates itself. See a command, but want to know all of the ins and outs (syntax etc) of using it? Run Get-Help [command]. Use the optional -Examples flag to see several well-explained examples. You can even add -Online to get the technet article to launch in your default web browser. I would think that nix users would feel at home with powershell. Microsoft has made a big push for getting developers to take a second look at Windows. They even set up aliases for common nix commands. Don't type 'dir', just type 'ls' - It works fine.
- dlitz 11y ago
  > Microsoft has made a big push for getting developers to take a second look at Windows. This presumes that the developers' first look and decision to stay away from Windows was mistaken. It wasn't. I avoid Windows because mistakes were made. If Microsoft continues to assert that I'm the one who made the mistakes, then I'm just going to keep avoiding their stuff. As a developer, I make dependency choices based largely on my confidence in the upstream's judgment. Microsoft has a long track record of making poor technical decisions and then never fixing them. I've also heard enough about their internal culture to understand how difficult this would be to change. Introducing a shell or a package manager well over a decade after it was clear that they needed one doesn't inspire confidence. Not to mention Microsoft's tendency act coercively when they can get away with it, and friendly when they can't. Yes, I'm bitter about this. I still don't plan on taking a second look.

ossreality 11y ago

I hate Windows. I spent 90% of my life in Unix. Powershell is fantastic. I'm not joking. Do you have any actual criticisms?

aesthetics1 11y ago

I think this comes from being unfamiliar with it. Want to know what you can do with network adapters? Run Get-Help AD to see every cmdlet containing AD, and narrow your search from there. Get-Help auto-updates itself. See a command, but want to know all of the ins and outs (syntax etc) of using it? Run Get-Help [command]. Use the optional -Examples flag to see several well-explained examples. You can even add -Online to get the technet article to launch in your default web browser. I would think that nix users would feel at home with powershell. Microsoft has made a big push for getting developers to take a second look at Windows. They even set up aliases for common nix commands. Don't type 'dir', just type 'ls' - It works fine.

dlitz 11y ago
> Microsoft has made a big push for getting developers to take a second look at Windows. This presumes that the developers' first look and decision to stay away from Windows was mistaken. It wasn't. I avoid Windows because mistakes were made. If Microsoft continues to assert that I'm the one who made the mistakes, then I'm just going to keep avoiding their stuff. As a developer, I make dependency choices based largely on my confidence in the upstream's judgment. Microsoft has a long track record of making poor technical decisions and then never fixing them. I've also heard enough about their internal culture to understand how difficult this would be to change. Introducing a shell or a package manager well over a decade after it was clear that they needed one doesn't inspire confidence. Not to mention Microsoft's tendency act coercively when they can get away with it, and friendly when they can't. Yes, I'm bitter about this. I still don't plan on taking a second look.