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I have a simultaneous respect for the power and capabilities of PowerShell while also for some reason harbouring a very strong loathing of it. I just viscerally dislike it. Maybe it’s the syntax… or perhaps just some latent decades-old Windows admin trauma…

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I guess there is consensus that powershell is good. Unix people may still find in cumbersome. For windows-primary people maybe it came too late? For a longer while it wasn't even integral part of Windows.

But honestly often when I talk to people they don't know the basics of cmd.exe, even if they worked with it for years. Like... surprised that it has pipes :) And apparently it's been there since DOS 2.0 (early 1980's).

Good point about it coming too late. I grew up using Windows pre-powershell and then had switched to Macs by the time Powershell got a lot of improvements and became a lot more worthy of attention!

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