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Your examples aren't Powershell commands, they are Windows command line utilities and could be run from command prompt. Real Powershell commands are quite intuitive, support pipelines and are object driven. Give it some credit! For example:

Install-WindowsFeature Biometric

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Also, PowerShell comands themselves come with aliases, like cls for Clear-Host

And it's not arbitrary reason . PowerShell is closer to a OOP language than other shells.

Not only that, but aliases are also guessable as they are created using the same pattern, one or 2 letters for noun and usually 2 for verb: rjb Remove-Job, etsn Enter-Session, gc Get-Content, gps Get-Process (but also ps for historical and even more discovery resons)

In my book, anybody complaining about terseness of powershell knows 0 about it and should be treated as ignorant. Give me a random bash command and I will probably make it shorter in Powershell without any custom made mumbo jumbo.

Thanks. I updated my post. I don't really do Windows command-line, so it's easy for me to conflate the two.

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