Ganesh

WSL2 seems pretty good. Still don’t understand the point of PowerShell. And why Win10 seems to steer you towards having 2-3 versions of it, operating (confusingly) in parallel. But thanks to WSL2 I suppose I may never have to. Now all I need is for it to become default.

Cc @bretthowsehttps://twitter.com/BrettHowse/status/1354532085709508611?s=19 …

I can't speak to what you would need it for but if you needed to manage servers or a few thousand workstations it's invaluable

This is the kind of stuff that I'm dying to know, as everything about PowerShell is so alien to me- is there anything that PWSH can do that you couldn't do with bash and some Python or something? I want to believe that this is just a Dunning-Kruger situation and I'm ignorant.

I probably don't know enough about what you're doing in Python and Bash to make a fair comparison

I'm literally looking for *anything*. I'm trying to understand why Powershell even exists- or perhaps rather why it should exist after WSLx becomes ubiquitous. Googling has gotten me pretty much nowhere in this effort.

As a generic scripting language, Powershell may not have any benefit over Perl or Python. However, it has tight coupling with Windows internals that makes it suitable for certain tasks. Eg: Obtaining temperature of a disk drive or CPU usage of a process using Get-WmiObject .