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I was forced to use Windows Server for an assignment and I like to learn new languages and PowerShell seemed interesting even though it's really ugly. It's much nicer to work with than Bash since everything is an object instead of having to do complex string magic. I can really recommend people trying it at least. Nushell is similar and probably what you would go for on linux, just played with it a bit and I liked it as well.

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Not only that, it's also typed.

So if you iterate over files for example, you can get the modification date as an actual DateTime property and not some string that might contain a date in some locale that you potentially have to parse then.

Also - regarding linked article's statement "PowerShell joins MSI files as another type that cannot be run as an administrator" - I have always just started a PowerShell/Terminal app as administrator which has more or less the same effect, though of course everything in that session is run with elevated permissions.

I don't even fully understand what the article means with that regarding MSI.

Windows Installer will elevate automatically (i.e. prompt with UAC if needed) if you're administrator. Or you as you say you open a command prompt as administrator and run the MSI with msiexec.

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