[f1refly]

> Very few use Powershell for Linux because it doesn't pre-installed on a Linux box

I don't buy that. On a GNU/Linux box, there's few things that are easier than installing a new shell, if you prefer a different shell than bash it's two commands away. Bash does the job people expect it to do and would probably be _very_ alienated it they'd had to start messing around with .net gubbins.

>And yes I would prefer your second "mental overhead" way as it involves less typing

Maybe for the first time you would. Maybe if you were to accomplish this specific thing. Anything else? Have fun diving into the manpage of your shell _and_ the programs you want to use, and you better hope they share a somewhat common approach to the implemented (object) datatype or well, good luck trying to get them to talk with each other

>Powershell is unfortunately not the shining example of a shell that best leverages structured/typed input/output succinctly

I would just remove the last part, then agree with you: ">Powershell is unfortunately not the shining example of a shell"

> Nearly every IT department that manages windows machines uses Powershell

I mean, what other choice do they have there? cmd? Yeah right, if you want to loose your will to live go for it

[lenkite]

>I don't buy that. On a GNU/Linux box, there's few things that are easier than installing a new shell, if you prefer a different shell than bash it's two commands away.

When you are SSH'ing into one of 10k containers for a few commands, you will only use what is already there. Bash is there and works and that is what one will use 100% of the time. No one is going to permit Powershell to be bundled to satisfy personal preferences.

[patrec]

You're both moving the goal posts (if powershell were superior I and countless other people would absolutely chsh it for our accounts, since we're already not using bash anyway) and not making much sense. Many sysadmins tend to spend a fair amount of time doing command line stuff and/or writing shell scripts. If powershell offered significant enough benefits for either, of course at least some companies would standardize on it, just like your hypothetical company presumably standardized on using containers to run their 10k services rather than installing some custom k8s cluster to satisfy the whims of one individual infra guy.

[lenkite]

When one doesn't have control over the repositories used in build and service machines since they are locked down nor have control over what goes into docker images (only secured images allowed and good luck trying to get your custom tools in), one will use the stuff that is already present.

This is far more common than you think in enterprise corporations. I work at the hypothetical one, which doesn't use k8s. (yet to upgrade cloud infrastructure of native data center)

If power-shell was bundled by default in Linux distro LTS releases, a lot of sysadmins I know would start using it, since they are already familiar with it for windows and write all their scripts in the same.

[majkinetor]

Meh for argument. Its not like 100% of people are "SSHing into 10k containers to run few commands". Its probably less then 0.00001%.

[emteycz]

VBScript is still used by Windows admins