Powershell

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I ended up scrapping using the container on windows and going with a powershell script. Then set up a scheduled task to run the script every 6 hours. It invokes the cli version of speedtest.exe directly. This way I get the results.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Reddit · 2026-08-15

• “building an enterprise PowerShell engine from scratch—it changes how you look at engineering completely”

  POSITIVE · performance · Reddit · 2026-08-08

• “I built a PowerShell GUI that connects to Exchange Online. It can schedule adding and removing mailbox and calendar delegate permissions. Previously, someone would have to set up a reminder for the date and time the change was meant to happen, log into a remote server, connect to Exchange Online and then add or remove permissions accordingly - all command line. This was done up to 20 times a day”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-07

• “So I pivoted to the scripting system that was there, and didn't need any approvals, which is of course PowerShell”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-08

• “If they coded their windows side better so I can do things in wsl and powershell to see and interact with .jpg/.heic files in icloud photos, an awful lot of my pain would go away”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “powershell with winform make you create things without "anything" installed and you can easily interact with other windows programs ( office 365 suite, autocad and so on ) so for doing "fast things" in my opinion is a very strong alternative”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-22

• “debugging intermittent Windows crash logs on my wife's laptop by doing multi-line PowerShell incantations from browser chat window, paste into PowerShell window. Cut multi-line error messages back to browser. Rinse / Repeat.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-11

• “adds multiple seconds! to each powershell command execution... it's just not even feasible at that point to work in Windows”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-05

• “in PowerShell, Objects have more convenience but a lot more overhead than simple values and you have to reach for .NET Library functions for better performance”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-18

• “it wasn't nice that the VAMT module isn't compatible with PowerShell v5.1, which means I needed to run my scripts under PowerShell v2”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-11

• “i was getting better at bash and powershell and regex and automating little tasks”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-03

• “I have always just started a PowerShell/Terminal app as administrator which has more or less the same effect, though of course everything in that session is run with elevated permissions.”

  LUKEWARM · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-22

• “PowerShell and Out-GridView are a rudimentary version of this”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “I had never used PowerShell before. Some of the steps were a bit intimidating and I wasn't fully sure what I was approving when clicking through.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-02

• “People should really get over their aversion against powershell.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-02

• “it always failed to install because of wrong dependencies. They can't even keep powershell up to date so it is far from great. Linux server support should be there from day 1 otherwise it is useless”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-24

• “my skills with Powershell finally gave me the confidence boost to take CLI/TUI seriously on Linux”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-20

• “Powershell seemed much more constraining at the edges. I had a lot of trouble getting the shell to accept verbatim strings as file contents.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-01-19

• “the PowerShell is actually broken. I can use standard network powershell commands that brake the OS applied to network interfaces.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-09-14

• “Program on Python or Powershell your functions inside Azure Function and you will fly to the mood.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Reddit · 2024-11-25