Or any other alternate shells that aren’t bash?

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    2 days ago

    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?

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      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.

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        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.