[zadjii]

It's possible the demo-er was intentionally leaving pauses for the viewer to parse what was taking place.

It's also possible that PowerShell just takes a little while to load up the profile. That's why I stick with cmd.exe (within the Terminal of course, I'm not a barbarian) :P

[moogly]

PowerShell Core, especially, is an absolute dog to start up.

[watersb]

PowerShell can take thousands of milliseconds to start up on my shiny new computer.

Hold your breath for five seconds as it looks around for stuff.