Comment by scrlkrunner | Hacker News Reader

Comment by scrlkrunner | Hacker News Reader

This adds a factor of enshittification for NT, NT doesn't need 88 line PowerShell scripts, this "sudo for Windows" thing makes Windows seem like a teenager's high school project. Windows NT already has runas, let NT be NT and let POSIX have sudo/doas. Previously Microsoft hired the best of the best operating systems engineers in the USA who were from Digital and they proved to be people capable of making an operating system able to scale from MIPS to PowerPC/DEC Alpha/IA-32/amd64/Itanium with any combination of hardware and peripherics, now they're allowing random people to push 88 line scripts and calling it a day. Very few people in this world deserve the privilege of touching any Windows NT code and even more few people deserve the possibility of pushing things to the build lab of Windows NT 10/11 builds

Thanks? But sudo * isn't a 88 line PowerShell script, it's a 1800 LOC Rust binary * isn't a NT kernel feature, it's a usermode executable * was made by (in my opinion) a perfectly decent engineer. That may be thinking too highly of myself though.

I see you are one of the heads of sudo for Windows, now based on your comment I see sudo for Windows with non-so unhopeful eyes. The comment about 88 lines PS code is about sudo.ps1 on the repo, thanks for clarifying. I'd like if more consideration is taken over sudo for Windows, as the MSDN docs relate: sudo at the moment has a clear distinction with runas and you must be the one who chooses what's best, I can infere the intention is not replacing runas, but then there's two ways to the same goal and each one with its differences. It's a similar situation than it was with WMIC and WMI for PS, being this case as a longer-standing approach, WMIC is deprecated but you can still use it if you want, however WMI for PS has the same functionality as WMIC and still offering benefits over WMIC, ultimately WMIC will be removed from future Windows releases. I'd be less confusing if this route is planned for runas and sudo

you're too kind replying to this

They decided kernel-mode graphics isn't a terrible idea, though.

At the time that decision was made, it was the only way to get acceptable performance on typical computers on which NT was expected to run.

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