jaykul, 6 months ago

@cjerrington and vice-versa ;-)

cjerrington, 6 months ago

@jaykul ohh even better. I’ll need to travel this road more.

ludothegreat, 6 months ago

@cjerrington
If you're not using Windows Terminal and setting up profiles, then I highly recommend you look into it.

cjerrington, 6 months ago

@ludothegreat I’ve been using Windows Terminal more lately. Been using Tabby for quite a while as well. Profiles have been great for PS5, PS7, cmd, and other special things like ssh.

kkarhan, 6 months ago

@cjerrington /me as #Linux user to #Microsoft:

#PowerShell #Windows

Dr. Halsey (Halo 5) saying "it took you long enough!"

kkarhan, 6 months ago

@cjerrington #Windows doesn't have a good #CLI (#PowerShell isn't even competing with #bash, much less with #fish or #zsh) so I'm not shure whether #Microsoft aims to do that.

Personally, I hope Windows gets axed and #Microsoft FLOSSes all #documentation needed to get #Wine and #ReactOS to have Feature Parity in terms of #API's and #ABI's to #Windows11, since revenue and profitability of one-time-purchase software is constantly sinking and in terms of #profit, #Xbox & #Azure are better...

dataelemental, 6 months ago

@kkarhan
@cjerrington
Why do you say PowerShell is less than bash, &c? What do you think it's missing? Have you used PowerShell much?

kkarhan, 5 months ago

@dataelemental @cjerrington it's just ugly to even look at due to so many inconsistencies.

I'd rather learn and daily drive #tcsh, #csh, #ksh and original #sh instead.

13reak, 5 months ago

@dataelemental @kkarhan @cjerrington

What Powershell is missing:

performance (I recently wrote a DB export and the SQL command fills up to max length with zeros! It took days to run!)

open source community

basic command line tools (cat, grep, sed, awk, etc. - I know Powershell has similar functionality but it's super tedious to use)

The only positive thing for me is the integration into Windows/.NET. (eg the connection to MSSQL Server was really easy)

kkarhan, 5 months ago

@13reak @dataelemental @cjerrington So basically a piss-poor experience aside from .not and other stuff that should not be used anymore...

I think #Microsoft should just deprecate their #Software, #OpenSource all of it and focus on the real moneymakers like #Azure and #Xbox instead.

dataelemental, 5 months ago

@kkarhan
@13reak @cjerrington
I think the experience of any tool is really mostly about whether you're fighting against the idiomatic usage it's designed for.

kkarhan, 5 months ago

@dataelemental @13reak @cjerrington Personally I wasted 15 years of my life with #Windows and I do regret not having made the switch to #Linux 5-10+ years earlier, because Windows to this day doesn't have a good #CLI / #shell nor absolute basics like a #PackageManager to keep stuff updated, so every application has to DIY it's own updates like some Caveman-made Ghettohack of a program...

Not to mention the mess re: #ITsec and it's #Govware #Backdoors...