[swamplander]

So Microsoft implicitly admits DOS sucks and creates a PowerShell prompt.

Then Microsoft doubles down and introduces a better prompt called WSL - the Windows Subsystem for Linux because the Windows command prompt still sucks... and this is just a Ubuntu VM in Windows.

And now they implement Sudo?

Microsoft hasn't learned the first lesson of holes - when you find yourself in one, stop digging.

[a321neo]

This doesn't make any sense. PowerShell and WSL serve entirely different purposes. PowerShell is bash-but-better for Windows. WSL is a developer-oriented way of running Linux/Unix software on Windows.

[ramijames]

This is a really good illustration for why I hate using Microsoft products. They don't commit to one vision long-term. They build a bunch of competing visions, and all feel half-assed. From a user's perspective this means that if I want to perform some task I likely either have a clunky experience, or worse, I end up having to use multiple similar tools to do it.

Very bleh.

[hu3]

Reducing WSL, which can virtualize multiple Linux in parallel, including Linux GUI programs, use GPU and run Docker at near-native speed, to a mere prompt seems dishonest.

[eska]

I wish they committed to implementing more of the POSIX standard instead. They only ever implemented an initial version, and then added tiny parts of it in incompatible ways.