• dudeface@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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

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      17 hours ago

      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

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      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

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        Nonsense, c# developers might install it on Linux but nobody who understands unix like systems considers it

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          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

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            Most gnu / bad tools are essentially objects, you just have to xarg the column you want

            Object orientated anything is pretty terrible

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          15 hours ago

          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)

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            1 day ago

            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 won’t have to use poweshell ever again

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              And that’ll be a sad day; powershell is one of approximately two great things that Microsoft ever did.

              It’s a little verbose in its commands, but it’s very good.