cyberbanjo

  install_firefox() {
      source /etc/os-release
      printf "Package: snapd
  Pin: release a=\*
  Pin-Priority: -10" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
      sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:mozillateam/ppa
      sudo apt update -y
      sudo apt install -y -t 'o=LP-PPA-mozillateam' firefox
      printf "%s" "Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins:: \"LP-PPA-mozillateam:${UBUNTU_CODENAME}\";" | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/51unattended-upgrades-firefox
      printf "Package: firefox\*
  Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
  Pin-Priority: 501" | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa
  }

  remove_snaps() {
      sudo snap remove --purge firefox
      sudo snap remove --purge snap-store
      sudo snap remove --purge gnome-3-38-2004
      sudo snap remove --purge gtk-common-themes
      sudo snap remove --purge snapd-desktop-integration
      sudo snap remove --purge bare
      sudo snap remove --purge core20
      sudo snap remove --purge snapd
      sudo apt remove --autoremove snapd -y
  
      cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
  # To prevent repository packages from triggering the installation of Snap,
  # this file forbids snapd from being installed by APT.
  # For more information: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html
  
  Package: snapd
  Pin: release a=*
  Pin-Priority: -10
  EOF
      sudo umount /var/snap
  }

EDIT: also how do you not think that Ubuntu using kids won't go on to use this free tooling in the future? MS spends a ton to target the education market because they know that you can get kids hooked early you get easier wins.

  The ForEach-Object cmdlet works much like the Foreach statement, except that you can't pipe input to a Foreach statement. For more information about the Foreach statement, see about_Foreach.

And another appears to be performance

  PS /home/me> $time = (Measure-Command {
  >>     1..1E4 | ForEach-Object {
  >>         $_
  >>     }
  >> }).TotalMilliseconds
  PS /home/me>  [pscustomobject]@{
  >>     Type = 'ForEach-Object'
  >>     Time_ms = $Time
  >>  }
  Type           Time_ms
  ----           -------
  ForEach-Object 144.558



  PS /home/me> $Time = (Measure-Command {
  >>     ForEach ($i in (1..1E4)) {
  >>         $i
  >>     }
  >> }).TotalMilliseconds
  PS /home/me>   [pscustomobject]@{
  >>     Type = 'ForEach_Statement'
  >>     Time_ms = $Time
  >>  }
  Type              Time_ms
  ----              -------
  ForEach_Statement  17.621

Installing the gnome alternative was one package and I killed X and started gnome-shell to test gsconnect it appears to pair and allow remote input from my phone to my PC and well enough, what doesn't work for you?

I certainly felt the hostility when I discovered the preloaded apps and ads in my Win11 install that aren't included in the much more expensive enterprise version.

dir itself is an alias for Get-ChildItem, but I don't know about -v (natural sort of version number)

Compare:

  PS /home/me> {
  >>     $Env:MYSQL_HOST = "MyHost.com";
  >>     $Env:MYSQL_USER = "MyUser";
  >>     java -jar myprogram.jar;
  >> }

    $Env:MYSQL_HOST = "MyHost.com";
    $Env:MYSQL_USER = "MyUser";
    java -jar myprogram.jar;


  PS /home/me> Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock {
  >>     $Env:MYSQL_HOST = "MyHost.com";
  >>     $Env:MYSQL_USER = "MyUser";
  >>     java -jar myprogram.jar;
  >> }
  Error: Unable to access jarfile myprogram.jar