There's no DOS prompt of course, but I use the command prompt almost every working day. I have started using wsl bash more and more though.
this is very much not the same thing especially since you can still find non systemd distros but really, systemd is neither a new nor abrupt nor unilateral change
Linux is not "doing the same thing" except inasmuch that everything that doesn't die changes over time
AFAIK there's nothing stopping you from writing software that pulls config info from an ini file. Has something changed?
Edit: I think I've edited ini files to configure video games somewhat recently.
How about using a DOS prompt recently?
I host my command prompt inside a 3rd party program, but I still use the Windows command prompt all the time. I think that's pretty normal for "power users" who haven't moved on to PowerShell (I use PS when I have to, but it's not my go-to).
You can write a Linux program that pulls from an INI file or a 3rd party DOS program on MacOS, the question is how this stuff is relevant to being a power Windows user.
What's the API for that look like? In Win32 it's GetPrivateProfileString.
the question is how this stuff is relevant to being a power Windows user.
I gave you an example. I guess you're not aware that many desktop applications continue to support ini files, even if it's not the first line of configuration anymore.
DOS has similarly been stripped from Windows but 3rd party DOS shells exist on many platforms. Honestly knowing Bash is more Windows specific at this point than DOS. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
So again, none of your examples are Windows specific at this point.
Huh? DOS != Command line interpreter or shell. DOS per se hasn't existed for decades, but the command line (Command Prompt) lives on, using pretty much the same syntax.
Honestly knowing Bash is more Windows specific at this point than DOS.
Bash is more Windows-specific than "DOS"?! That makes no sense whatsoever.
I am well aware of INI files being used by applications on several operating systems.
What are you even talking about now? You started the whole ini discussion with "Remember .ini files? Yea how relevant is that today?" So it went from irrelevant to relevant across platforms?
On windows 11 using Microsoft only tools you can list every file in a directory using ls or dir. But Bash is by far a more powerful tool than command prompt making it far more relevant for a power user than some legacy syntax.
> So it went from irrelevant to relevant across platforms?
The point INI files and DOS come up but aren’t some Windows specific knowledge at this point.