Ok... But... Why?

Why would you use PowerShell instead of bash... Just... Why...

Doesn't surprise me. The first distro to use the Windows Subsystem for Linux was Ubuntu.

I'm starting to suspect that Microsoft is looking at making serious moves towards a partnership/buyout of Canonical so they have a platform to take on the likes of Oracle and RedHat.

@starrynights89 you know what, wouldn't surprise me, it seems Microsoft are just trying to merge Ubuntu and windows essentially

@LastDigitOfPi you can do a tonne with it but just the way you actually do things with it is horrible, all the scripts end up looking like 'my first bash script'

in my eyes powershell is as powerfull as the bash with the standard gnu tools without the usefulness of function output like Function1 2| errorprog

Because different people, scenario, scripts, jobs, projects ecc... Exists

@MrJimmy I mean they could just use the source code to their liking but there's the brand image that comes with owning it.

@starrynights89 @lxmcf you guys do know that ms is funding canonical, right?

@sharktits NO!

SINCE FUCKING WHEN?!

@sharktits That's news to me.

You can do a lot on windows to be honest. Powershell is really powerful. Besides that I'm moving to .net and azure so for me it make sense. And I have a hard requirement to Adobe because I'm also a photographer🤷‍♂️

Powershell is ok

@theCreativeOne what do you mean with adobe? Adobe sw only on win or mac?

Ubuntu shell in Windows 10 then, powershell in Ubuntu now...

That’s the Windows and Ubuntu right now

I need office365 cmdlets working under Linux. Last time I checked it was still no bueno. Any news for yhose cmdlets in PS under Ubuntu? I. am stuck running for that 😖

@dontbeevil well I cant fully switch to Ubuntu because I use Adobe. Like almost daily. And I don't like dualbooting my machines

@MrJimmy you know you are not forced to use the powershell, right?

To get output slower you can use powershell.

On windows I executed same task on both poweshell and cmd.

Result (exec. time) :

cmd : 445ms
Powershell : 1300ms

And it is available to Ubuntu😂😂😂😂

One thing it opens up is for Windows SysOps guys to have a familiar CLI to operate Linux boxes with as well. Possibly letting you re-use a lot of your existing scripts.

Also could open some Docker cross platform functionality.

I just realized this the other day. I still need to find out the need for it since most of what I need automated I can do so with a mixture of bash, Python and sometimes even php(rarely, but I have come across this)

To be fair, powershell is exceedingly powerful and since most of my time is spent on windows it is what I use. Cmdlets are pretty cool and you do get an ide for it by default on every windows machine

Because a two liner in PS cost me 10 lines in Bash...

So next Windows won’t be a Windows?

Gross.

I love that you started this with "ok, but why?" I have a Post-It on my monitor that I point to when people ask for stupid shit you don't need, just like this.

@sylar182 YOU... not everybody

Power Shell is so "POWERFUL" that it's so slow.

object pipeline is actually powerful and in windows you can connect to anything. However i've already ranted about powershell, but it's about classes & modules