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> bloated GNU tools If you were coming from the Unix/BSD world, I could understand this, but how is using a GUI for everything considered elegant, while GNU to

by pyre 11y ago

> bloated GNU tools If you were coming from the Unix/BSD world, I could understand this, but how is using a GUI for everything considered elegant, while GNU tools are considered "bloated?" Doesn't the GUI necessarily "bloat" the program more than a few extra command-line options would?

maximilianburke 11y ago
You don't need a GUI; PowerShell is a powerful command line scripting environment.
- psykovsky 11y ago
  Which needs a full desktop environment to be used. Or am I wrong?
  - pjc50 11y ago
    It doesn't involve the desktop environment unless you ask it to, and you can invoke it remotely from outside. The system does boot to GUI, but the overhead of that with nobody logged in is not very large. Embedded Windows, on the other hand, is forever the poor relation.
    - psykovsky 11y ago
      Still no alt+F1 to alt+F7, right? That would be cool to have. I'm really curious, as I made the leap to Ubuntu years ago and the most I've touched windows is doing reinstalls on friends computers.
      - hackmiester 11y ago
        It's true, but you can log in multiple users, or log in users multiple times, and these run in distinct areas, kind of like virtual terminals. These are called "sessions." http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/07/24/sessions-desktops-and-windows-stations.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/07/24/sessio...
  - maximilianburke 11y ago
    If you've SSH'd into your Windows machine, as it seems Microsoft is working towards, you would not need to interact with the desktop environment.
  - iso8859-1 11y ago
    Server Core doesn't include a full DE.