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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to All   
   Re: DCL2   
   16 Dec 25 01:24:02   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:28:42 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > On 12/15/2025 6:01 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:59:51 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> On 12/13/2025 8:41 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I have this feeling that more and more Windows diehards (inside and   
   >>>> outside Microsoft) are simply installing WSL2 and using the Linux   
   >>>> command line instead.   
   >>>   
   >>> Not likely.   
   >>>   
   >>> As it would be practically useless for Windows admin tasks.   
   >>   
   >> Most of those use point-and-click anyway. Or this new “Agentic AI”   
   >> thing.   
   >   
   > No.   
   >   
   > The normal end users like GUI, but the serious Windows admins script a   
   > lot.   
   >   
   > And today that is mostly PS.   
      
   Somehow I doubt that. Remember, Microsoft spent years, decades,   
   conditioning its users to be allergic to the command line.   
      
   Then they did an about-face and introduced PowerShell. But something tells   
   me that has not been as big a success as some might have hoped.   
      
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