“Usable” is a strong statement… It went from a “misery inducing insufferable machine” to a “extremely big annoyance”. I do concede it is anyway a progress
Winget-UI specifically can run the upgrade tool automatically for you, that’s what I meant for “automation”. You could also add a scheduler to run Winget by itself every day if you need to.
I really want to love the “everything is an object” of power shell but I just have zero uses for using a shell on windows. Granted, my windows usage is like 15 minutes a week most of the time, but still. I also can’t be bothered to use it for work because it’s exclusively Linux/linux-ish over there so it’s not worth bothering.
Either way, I like the idea, can’t really justify figuring out the details.
If you only have to use it 15 minutes every week it’s probably not worth getting to know.
I work in a Windows shop, so I love everything being an object, most of the time. At least for the things that are worked out completely.
It’s great for things you need to iterate or just for figuring out what you can do by piping a result to get-member. If you are interested in getting better at powershell at some point, I highly recommend Powershell in a month of lunches. (Also because I like Manning’s model where they automatically offer the digital versions of books they sell, and also offering free previews of the entire book, given enough time)
I hope I didn’t come across as defending ps.
PS sucks and whoever decided to have functions use capital case with dashes in between needs to have their brain scanned
I like that you actually can ls in power shell now
Yes, yes you can.
Also, WSL and windows terminal go a very long way in making windows actually usable…
“Usable” is a strong statement… It went from a “misery inducing insufferable machine” to a “extremely big annoyance”. I do concede it is anyway a progress
You damn spoiled kids with your blue jeans and your rock and roll music and your auto complete!
Just add Winget with an UI to have a proper package manager and we’re in
Package manager with a UI? I like my apt and dnf thank you very much.
You can still use winget by itself from the command line! The UI is just there for convenience and automation
Wut?
I’ve never gone to a UI when I want to automate something, a sane CLI is much more predictable and consistent.
Winget-UI specifically can run the upgrade tool automatically for you, that’s what I meant for “automation”. You could also add a scheduler to run Winget by itself every day if you need to.
I use pacman btw
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I’ve just been using scoop for many years and I haven’t felt the need to switch
PowerShell 7 is pretty sweet ngl
I really want to love the “everything is an object” of power shell but I just have zero uses for using a shell on windows. Granted, my windows usage is like 15 minutes a week most of the time, but still. I also can’t be bothered to use it for work because it’s exclusively Linux/linux-ish over there so it’s not worth bothering.
Either way, I like the idea, can’t really justify figuring out the details.
If you only have to use it 15 minutes every week it’s probably not worth getting to know.
I work in a Windows shop, so I love everything being an object, most of the time. At least for the things that are worked out completely.
It’s great for things you need to iterate or just for figuring out what you can do by piping a result to get-member. If you are interested in getting better at powershell at some point, I highly recommend Powershell in a month of lunches. (Also because I like Manning’s model where they automatically offer the digital versions of books they sell, and also offering free previews of the entire book, given enough time)
“But PS is open source ! Don’t you want to use it in Linux and MacOS?” - Microsoft probably
WSL or bust
As long as you don’t have
ls
aliased tols -la
in your brain…Yeah but tbh i really despise powershells syntax. But i’m happy it is pretty powerful.
i’m often amazed at microsoft’s ability to take a useful product and make it agonizing to use
Unfortunately, bash syntax isnt amazing either
But Powershell is worse
Yeah. I’ve said this before and got grilled for it but I wish there was a shell scripting language that doesn’t have arcane syntax.
Fish? I like fish.
Can anyone name any living language, scripting or otherwise, without arcane syntax?
Perl, no wait you said without arcane syntax…
Bash came out decades ago and powershell is brand new. It doesn’t really have an excuse to suck.
I hope I didn’t come across as defending ps. PS sucks and whoever decided to have functions use capital case with dashes in between needs to have their brain scanned
If you can suppress 30 years of " -al" from following his buddy.
That’s actually “-la”, pal.
Updating pacman is always
pacman -yuS
yuS, it is!
yeah
I’m so sorry but this is how I pictured your response lmao
Oh man, it comes full circle
lol