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The most powerful things windows can do are gui based and the most powerful things macos can do are in the cli
Not saying everyone bothers going that deep but there is a reason most software engineers and other professionals would prefer mac over windows
Windows is an inconsistent mess and their terminal tools are afterthoughts
I don't know if that's accurate. Have you seen PowerShell? It's so good, some people install it on Linux to use as their main shell
This just proves the world has deeply disturbed people
Nonsense, c# developers might install it on Linux but nobody who understands unix like systems considers it
This is incorrect. And the GNU tools would be much better if they were object-oriented like PS is. No I don't have PS on my personal machines (Cachy btw) but that's genuinely a super great feature. It's an idea who's time has come (ages ago)
No he is sorta right, powershell is actually kinda fire.
I use it daily, there is no point putting it on a unix like system
One day we will be rid of windows servers and I wonβt have to use poweshell ever again
And thatβll be a sad day; powershell is one of approximately two great things that Microsoft ever did.
Itβs a little verbose in its commands, but itβs very good.
That might be true if *NIX had another shell with an object-based pipeline, or if PowerShell wasn't object-based
I'd argue most people who dismiss PowerShell offhand like that don't understand it particularly well
Most gnu / bad tools are essentially objects, you just have to xarg the column you want
Object orientated anything is pretty terrible
Yeah, having to take the extra steps to parse strings every time is far superior to objects that can sort, filter, and give you the exact properties you need natively
I mean, if your complaint is a heavier overhead, sure, but for most uses as an interactive shell or for smaller scripts, I don't really see how that would negatively impact you in meaningful ways compared to having to splice raw text and hope the package maintainer doesn't decide to add a column in a future update
The most powerful stuff will always be script/CLI/shell based. Guis only work so and so well, but having multi step procedures requires something else.
Windows included