>He joined in 2014, when Windows had a superior shell and remoting system that eliminates the requirement for low-level string parsing tools like sed/awk entirely!
One mans feature is another mans bug.
One mans feature is another mans bug.
It seems like grappling with these arcane features feels productive, at first.
You enter a flow state and after a while, something works that didn’t work before.
It’s only when you step back and ask what actually got accomplished that you realize it’s time wasted.
That's what Linux feels like to me. People enjoy solving arcane problems, digging through man pages, download esoteric commands. Heck I enjoy this stuff too! Recently I had a lot of fun playing around with parallel compression tools available on Linux.It's fun... but it's rarely as productive as not having to deal with the challenge in the first place.