The practical purpose of asking is to get a feel for how many people use it.
Less tongue in cheek though, it sounds like you have the same questions as OP. If you’re curious what might be the practical purpose, why not ask people who use it why they do instead of berating OP for asking if anyone uses it?
Well by that logic, it’s a way for Windows users to not learn the native tooling available, but not skip any steps. It doesn’t make any sense.
Learning Powershell in a Linux environment is going to just absolutely be a crutch and fuck up your ability to interact with other Linux systems that don’t share your particular environment.
As someone who used bash on Windows through MSYS, I don’t see the issue. It was different, not inferior, to cmd and PowerShell. If someone wants to use PowerShell on Linux why be such a condescending jerk about it? Sometimes people just wanna try things for the fun of trying new things.
If you run VMware, you can use PowerCLI to interact with your vSphere servers, and PowerCLI requires PowerShell and uses similar syntax. I haven’t tried it on Linux yet, but I would assume that that might be a valid use case.
It’s been a while for me and i can’t try things out atm, but i think vSphere SSH access is only for managing the appliance itself, not objects like VMs in a vSphere cluster. For that, you would have to use the Python SDK or PowerCLI.
Honest question: why?
Why not? It seems like a well supported shell on windows that isn’t terrible.
bash is also well supported in Windows via WSL
Development. Azure especially.
Because I have to admin Windows boxes and M365. There are PS modules for lots of different MS things.
exchange online shell
Why do you care why OP asks if people use something?
I mean what’s the practical purpose?
The practical purpose of asking is to get a feel for how many people use it.
Less tongue in cheek though, it sounds like you have the same questions as OP. If you’re curious what might be the practical purpose, why not ask people who use it why they do instead of berating OP for asking if anyone uses it?
Well by that logic, it’s a way for Windows users to not learn the native tooling available, but not skip any steps. It doesn’t make any sense.
Learning Powershell in a Linux environment is going to just absolutely be a crutch and fuck up your ability to interact with other Linux systems that don’t share your particular environment.
As someone who used bash on Windows through MSYS, I don’t see the issue. It was different, not inferior, to cmd and PowerShell. If someone wants to use PowerShell on Linux why be such a condescending jerk about it? Sometimes people just wanna try things for the fun of trying new things.
If you run VMware, you can use PowerCLI to interact with your vSphere servers, and PowerCLI requires PowerShell and uses similar syntax. I haven’t tried it on Linux yet, but I would assume that that might be a valid use case.
vSphere has SSH access. This isn’t a reason to use PSH on Linux.
It’s been a while for me and i can’t try things out atm, but i think vSphere SSH access is only for managing the appliance itself, not objects like VMs in a vSphere cluster. For that, you would have to use the Python SDK or PowerCLI.
Because I never learned Bash scripting, for whatever reason, and WSL wasn’t yet available to load on my work PC at the time.