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PowerShell reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of PowerShell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-12-06.
- Copy-Item is 27% slower than File Explorer
- Understanding the Worst .NET Vulnerability
On Linux, system-wide installations are handled through the system's package manager.
On Windows, if you have the "Install updates for other Microsoft products" option enabled, .NET [Core] runtimes will be updated through Windows Update.
If the domain's group policy won't let you turn it on from the UI (or if you want to turn it on programmatically for other reasons), the PowerShell 7 installer has a PowerShell script that can be adapted to do the trick: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/ba02868d0fa1d7...
- Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust
"can" is doing some heavy lifting there, especially based on my experience with VSCodium (which by definition is forced to work within Microsoft's opinion of build systems)
Anyway, uh-huh:
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github... -> https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github...
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github... -> https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github...
As a frame of reference, to build bash one only needs /bin/sh not a pre-built copy of bash itself https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/configure?h=...
- PowerShell 7.5.0 Released
- Fish shell announces 4.0 release
I'll take this moment to point out that the PowerShell feels like a modern shell and is open source https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell (MIT license). If you want something more modern give it a try. Native support for JSON and XML and parallel streams.
That said, I'm glad to see another major release of Fish because it's for having option that we get evolution.
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Download: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.4.5/PowerShell-7.4.5-win-x64.msi
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PowerShell is so alien to an experienced bash/zsh/etc. user that it's an entirely different language not any kind of drop-in replacement. Its designers also refuse to add simple things to make the switch any easier (e.g. https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/3316).
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