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I sat near an administrator who loudly cursed all day, because they force that gui down upon all system internal tools and ruined the info-density of the dashboards.

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As someone that’s been forced to reluctantly wear the ‘Windows sysadmin’ on and off for the past ~15 years due to circumstances beyond my control…this just sounds like the complaint of someone too lazy to learn PowerShell.

The linux subsystem, despite being about as wrongheaded as running linux user space on the Windows OS can be as an idea, solves that problem. Nobody needs PowerShell, unless you're dealing with very old systems. And in that case, you're already lost.

The point of learning powershell is not because it is some great shell, but the available bindings to many subsystems, that allow you to admin them; including many toggles and options, that are not available in any gui.

Bash running in wsl does not have these bindings.

You've convinced me. Getting away from Windows as quickly as possible in the fastest direction is definitely the goal.

Other UNIXes and mainframes did it first, in regards to emulating Linux kernel in some form or fashion.

WSL makes sense in the context that Microsoft was too dumb to keep improving Windows NT UNIX subsystem, and to throw away SUA as well.

Regarding WSL, it can't be used to admnister Windows systems anyway.

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