Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Date: 25 Nov 2025 00:21:53 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <1864d8e7ae136b94$115$2498948$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10a4ph3$obcm$2@dont-email.me> <68c5ef9f@news.ausics.net> <10a5sou$1360o$7@dont-email.me> <10fcb5j$3enl$1@dont-email.me> <20251120145948.00000987@gmail.com> <10fo9nn$3a6ib$3@dont-email.me> <20251121143333.00001168@gmail.com> <20251124090628.00004efe@gmail.com> <10g2ov8$2st2p$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net X14c/q/23jvkI+NCaOs8hgpRd/iDOrUlgqJLjyWQZgnItKOVxG Cancel-Lock: sha1:s+0go1iJx1ToYCxyWyEk2aiQYAU= sha256:I7NVDs6Mc/1x+cJ2dIAOKb0TUwMPGzc+WLO9d4mKAOc= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:701722 comp.os.linux.misc:77893 On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:15:52 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:06:28 -0800, John Ames wrote: > >> (It is a shame, though [about PowerShell]; with as much functionality >> as it exposes and how smooth it makes interoperation of various Windows >> components, it really *could* be tremendously useful. But it's such a >> pain in the ass to figure out that I practically never bother.) > > Could it be that, when it comes to command-line tools, even Microsoft > are no longer “eating their own dog food” when it comes to PowerShell? > Do their internal engineers prefer to adopt the much richer ecosystem > already available in Linux, instead of going to the trouble of trying to > build an entire parallel one from scratch for the Windows command line? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/install-powershell-on-linux?view=powershell-7.5