Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery
Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]>
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On 2026-06-30, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:52:32 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > >> Much of that “jarring” comes from the fact that the whole Windows >> environment is inherently unsuited to command-line operation, and >> Microsoft can’t seem to do anything about that. > > Funny, I've been mostly using cmd on Windows for years with gVim as my > primary editor. I will admit the relatively new Windows Terminal is nice. > I can have a couple of Windows tabs and a tab for the WSL instance. About > all I do in PowerShell is copypasta stuff I usually don't understand. I found a collection of Unix-style utilities (ls, grep, cut, uniq, etc.) years ago. The .EXEs' date stamps range from 1999 to 2003. They're enough for me to sort of pretend I'm using real tools, rather than CMD.EXE's brain-damaged not-quite-equivalents. -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | No artificial \ / <[email protected]> | intelligence was X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | used in the creation / \ if you read it the right way. | of this post.