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[–] 86 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Powershell is probably simultaneously the best and worst thing Microsoft has ever created

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Second best. The best was Active Directory.

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    I am the Linux folks.

    FreeIPA is fine, and I don’t care much about the GPO aspect of Active Directory. But the standardization-by-ubiquity that made it easy for everyone to just follow along and make it so it Just Works has been a godsend.

    Yes Microsoft built on the shoulders of giants but trying to make things work with OpenLDAP or the other also-ran directory services was a nightmare.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I remember powershell being extremely slow to start on my laptop and sometimes slow to catch up to my typing (and I'm a slooow typist).

    tbf it was the win 8.1 days, dunno if it's better now.

    Really liked using it tho. At least it used my actual keyboard layout, unlike cmd.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    It's much better now, I put off moving from cmd until somewhere around 2015 when I was using 'invoke-command' constantly, over the last decade or so I've moved to powershell proper cmdlets... Its actually not that bad.

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