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Why Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and ported it to Linux (www.cio.com)
submitted 1 year ago by StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@programming.dev
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In the comments section of a recent post I found out that Windows PowerShell had been ported to Linux. Had no clue it was a thing.

Went looking and found this old article attempting to explain why they did it. Not remotely interested in giving up Bash for PowerShell, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. The article seems to be from 2016.

I have never been more tempted to check the NSFW box, but I'll leave it open for now unless a mod complains. :-D

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[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 year ago

the fact that every small thing is its own cmdlet is super annoying. I can do everything in Linux if I know 10 commands

That sounds more like a clash of cultures than a real problem. In Linux you need to know 10 options and possibly subcommands for each command. Naturally the same concept has different flags, and the same flag has different meanings in different commands. Is that really better?

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