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But developing OpenSource software in Windows is still a pain: You still need Make, GCC, Autotools, etc. etc. and even if you can install Cygwin it's messy as hell.

And powershell sucks, we don't need another shell: we have been using Bash for decades.

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Not a powershell fan here, rarely used it.

But 'Bash for decades'? Is that true? A quick search for bash 1.0 shows me tarballs from '95, which isn't yet decadeS old.. Ignoring the question of whether bash is the optimum shell and that some systems migrated to replacements (think dash, all the zsh lovers).

So that last line of yours seems a little over the top.

If you do any sort of Windows administration, PowerShell is a godsend.

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