for real though, modern linux distros will rarely require you to enter a command line, and if you do, a quick internet search can usually help you find out what you need to enter

      • wantonviolins [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        truly one of powershell’s worst offenses

        the others mostly revolve around it being Different for no discernible reason, they could have built something unix-y with a series of windows-y userspace utilities but no, they had to Microsoft it

        • blobjim [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Because PowerShell is better than a traditional terminal because it doesn't keep all the legacy crap from like the 1970s physical terminals lol. It's basically a programming environment with actual data types but in a terminal syntax flavor, instead of this insane string concatenation/parsing/piping machine. It's main problem (having used it a tiny bit but not a crazy amount) is that it doesn't have powerful enough commands, has a terrible paginator (it's worse than the "more" command), and that Windows in general sucks.

          • KenBonesWildRide [they/them]A
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            3 years ago

            Yeah it didn’t keep all that 1970’s crap, just all that 1990’s crap. “Terminal, but object-oriented” is nonsense language invented by crazy people and I will not stand for it. No I am not bitter from dealing with the Office API why do you ask?

              • KenBonesWildRide [they/them]A
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                3 years ago

                Undocumented enums. Senseless abstraction boundaries. Documentation is often out of sync. Permissions are implicit or buried in docs. I could go on

                • blobjim [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  Documentation is for losers and nerds 😎

                  All my homies inspect the source code to figure out how to use functions 😎👍(except when it's Office and it's closed source)

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        PowerShell is also that terrible bright blue color and some absolutely garbage tab completion.

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I once wrote a small script to take a few inputs from a dialog box and pick a file in powershell and that motherfucker is something like 50 lines of code. Making an input box in Linux is literally a one-liner with zenity

    • Shrek
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      3 years ago

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