Message from @Beemann
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What the world needs now
Power shell is "Microsoft is trying to have a good terminal"
Is love, sweet love.
It's not perfect but it's better than cmd
CMD is rooted in lagacy dos
And people are now making repos for Windows, which is neat
What do you mean, repos
Like open source software for windows or what
I'm gonna go play hoi4
do it
Basically yeah
There's always been oss for windows
There's now plugins for PS that let you use Linux style installations
Just use gimp
For a variety of FOSS and some non FOSS programs
I love foss software
it helps me loads when working and writing software of my own
So you could be extra lazy, and have a script that installs to powershell, and then a script that sets up your software, rather than manually install from a browser or keep a list of URLs
Or just use apt
if you're on a debian based system
Right but this is for Windows
True
Except the installers, accepting agreements, etc
can't usually do that automatically
Iirc I didn't have to handle shit when using chocolatey
But I haven't used it in a while because it's more novelty than utility rn
it might be useful for businesses
or people who reinstall windows a lot
Eh, most enterprise level stuff would just use desired state configuration or imaging or something
True
I don't see why businesses still use windows anymore, other than legacy software support
Windows is honestly bad for businesses, due to its bad security
Easy to use, most enterprise software works with it, industry standard, your employees know how it works
Everyone at my work is excited about the upcoming switch from OSX to Windows
Microsoft also has decent office applications and will host your shit if you don't have the server capacity
>switch to OSX
Why even bother?
From OSX
Because OSX supports nothing
Oh sorry