Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052 to the Canary and Dev Channels.

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[–] 182 points 2 years ago (9 children)

"Let's give our new command line app the same name as a popular linux command even though it's not the same app and behaves differently. I'm sure our users would appreciate it when they have problem with the app and trying to search the solution later."

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    To be consistent with Powershell's command structure, they should call it "Get-Access" or something similar...

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  • [–] [S] 40 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    "Because we are Microsoft, the company known for giving its products perfectly reasonable and not confusing names"

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I think Google's the worst for this. Examples such as the browser Chrome, when browser chrome has been a thing for a long time. Go, a very common verb and keyword and also now a programming language. Not to be confused with their Go Links, which was a URL shortener. And then there's all the ones they either rebrand or retire and/or replace.

    Perhaps they want confusing names because they think other search engines can't handle the ambiguity.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    To be honest, other programming languages aren't named any better

    Pascal is just a common name, Rust is a common noun, Java is an island which you cannot find by searching for just its name, Python's a snake, C# is a musical note and C is just a letter.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    afaik they also alias common linux/gnu commands like curl.. but the syntax isnt like curl at all

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago

    I definitely spent a frustrated 45 minutes trying to figure out why curl wasn't working when it was supposed to be supported in PowerShell.

    then I hit tab a couple of times and noticed curl.exe was an option, that works exactly the same as I had expected with original syntax.

    they do this to a lot of things though a lot of common commands end up being an alias to a powershell command with a specific option set that doesn't always line up

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    [–] 74 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Windows is not in sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I bet you not even sudo could remove edge. edge is like the breathing lungs and thinking brain and balls of computer

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And, knowing Windows, won't let you do as much as a real sudo would anyway. There are so many f-ing things that even Admin is not allowed to do on a Windows box, it is simply annoying. "Oh no, you cannot remove Edge! This would threaten the stability of the universe!"

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you remember when Microsoft tried to patent sudo?

    Pepperidge farm remembers.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    It is an ergonomic and familiar solution for users who want to elevate a command without having to first open a new elevated console.

    Yeah Microsoft, how exactly is it familiar for Windows users? 😜

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The trick to powershell is to make incredibly liberal use of tab completion to speed yourself up. Or make aliases for commands you use really often.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sudo rm -rf c: --no-preserve-root

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    This has been needed since Windows XP SP2.

    Glad to see they've finally started doing their backlog tickets.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    alias sudo=runas

    Wow, so exciting.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Honestly, it's hardly newsworthy given how sudo was a thing in windows for quite a while now. I use it pretty often, especially sudo pwsh for elevated shells.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Its been a thing for a while on windows 10 as well https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

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    I been using gsudo for quite sometime, the default way to leverage privaliges in Windows is cancer, the whole shell is tbh.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    ah finally our imposters are in senior positions

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Do ssh-copy-id next please.

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