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what you end up using in bash is actually the defaults that people have come up with after decades of use.

taking PowerShell straight out of the box isn't that different from running bash with no config file. I use lots of aliases and custom cmdlets to make things smoother for my particular workflow. PS is still pretty new so a lot of that stuff is still being built.

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Powershell is hard even with config file.

It really requires “coder” mode of thinking.

That may very well be...the guy that created powershell always says that Unix is document oriented configuration while windows is API oriented configuration. To do anything in Windows you have to know API's. To be fair someone has to write the code that parses all of those config files in Unix...but I think the over all idea is accurate.

They are changing that with PS Desired State Configuration...if you haven't seen it you should check it out. But you are right...it's coming from a different place than Unix shells.

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