Vim's sort is handy on Windows where the option to shell out usually doesn't exist.
Additionally you have the full power of Vim regex to sort on subsets of lines.
What Linux distribution do you use on HP Stream? I used Ubuntu on mine and for some reason Firefox is intolerably slow. That really does sour things for me
Not really - this fine SO answer has many examples of CROSS/OUTER APPLY elegantly solving problems that would otherwise have been inconvenient to deal with - https://stackoverflow.com/a/9275865/753731