From: sam@noneya.com   
      
   Lawrence D?Oliveiro  wrote:   
   > On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:28:42 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 12/15/2025 6:01 PM, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
      
   sigh...    
   I work in a big-ish Windows environment. GUI is used when necessary, and   
   everything else is scripted. With PS. I'm a network engineer, so I use   
   WSL2 and Linux VMs, but I don't really manage anything Windows.   
      
   It is well-received amongst the Windows admins I'm surrounded by. Nobody is   
   saying they wish they could just clicky-click several hundred times to do   
   something that could go in a for loop. Most of our Windows VMs don't even   
   have a GUI installed (datacenter edition).   
      
   As to Arne's earlier question of PS adoption in Linux... Hell NO. PS runs   
   counter to how *nix people think. It is bloated, excruciatingly verbose,   
   and its "everything's an object" model breaks pipelining in the *nix   
   paradigm. This doesn't even address the religious objections. No thank you.   
      
   -Sam   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)