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I'm a Linux guy myself, but whenever I see colleagues use a terminal on Mac OS or Windows, the amount of little annoyances on Windows really sticks out. It's nothing major (hard to configure colour schemes, awkward copy/paste operations, PuTTY), but it compounds to an unpleasant experience.

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Also lack of fullscreen support (pre-windows 10), no history and it seems that command line was just a joke for MS for the longest time.

I think it's the explosion of open source and the corresponding command line tools that they started investing some time and effort to the command line.

Honestly, I think the biggest driver is the type of developers you find now. With Open-Source being such a large area for almost every CS student and budding developer - the normal work environment is becoming very Linux-heavy.

A natural result is now the Devs working at Microsoft ALSO wish they could use the command line for everything in Windows. Thus Powershell, and things like AZ CLI becoming much better.

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