[mikemaccana]

A half-bad Unix on top of Windows, with its own duplicate way of handling services, storage, users, permissions and everything else, is a pretty poor setup. Powershell (particularly the way it separates data from presentation) is one of the best shells on any OS. Being able to access it from Linux is a good thing.

[RayDonnelly]

As soon as Microsoft open sources PowerShell I'll be more than happy to take a look at it and perhaps add it to MSYS2. Until then for me and many like me, it's neither half bad nor half good, it lies orthogonal to the scale on which I judge software.

[YCOmega]

This "separate data from presentation" sounds like TCO-speak. Way too frequently referenced to be a genuine inspiration.

It's only "half bad" (if that even) because while the whole world moved on from Windows to Unix (OSX, Linux), Microsoft dug their heels in. Think of it as paying down long overdue technical debt.

[mikemaccana]

> This "separate data from presentation" sounds like TCO-speak. Way too frequently referenced to be a genuine inspiration.

Huh? It's a very specific thing. When you run stuff on Powershell, you pipe it to 'select' or 'where' and pick fields, rather than running grep / sed / awk and inventing regexs to scrape stuff.

    ps | where {$_.StartTime -ge $1HourAgo}

Before accusing me of 'TCO speak' and being 'ungenuine' - for mentioning something that's a well known engineering concept, particularly in the Unix world (ever used TeX?), you could have done <1 minute of research.

[brazzledazzle]

If someone created a solid port of PowerShell to nix it would be a god-send.