(April 5, 2012 at 7:42 pm)Tiberius Wrote: The Windows command line is pathetic. I have to install Cygwin in order to make it tolerable. The point about Mac OS X is that they have GUIs, but they also have the command line if you want to do it that way. You can do far more using the command line (the default shell is bash). Better IMO to have both, and have good versions of both.
This.
Even the Windows "Power Shell" is weaksauce, let alone the standard command shell - even when compared against 20 year old versions of sh/ksh/csh, let alone bash.
Granted, most people aren't going to give a rip, and may not even know a command shell exists.
As you said, Cygwin makes it tolerable.
