I injected a Microsoft infrastructure into FreeBSD 15, and was impressed...

ShelLuser

ShelLuser

Hi gang!

I "did" something this evening:

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Note: I am well aware that plenty of you guys may not necessarily appreciate this, and I really (!) get that. But you cannot deny the fact that "the power to serve" was heavily tested here, and.. it passed with flying colors? Also: such statements should go more ways, even those you may not like IMO.

What are you looking at: I set up a Hyper-V VM with FreeBSD 15, pure out of habit but the thing is: I had no real use for this right now. Which is when it hit me.. why not play around? Thing about me: I don't go for absolutes.. when it comes to my desktop usage I actually prefer Windows, even got my fingers behind their infrastructure (msc anyone?) and have been a 365 subscriber for many years. PowerShell is one of my huge favorites.

When it comes to servers otoh... I think it's obvious? Oh, that 365? Isn't necessarily about Office, but more so my online storage on OneDrive. Oh, right... fun fact: open standards allow open access, my FreeBSD server... yah, dumps some of its stuff onto OneDrive? But now I'm getting offtopic...

I basically "injected" my FreeBSD 15, KDE powered, setup with major "Microsoft-tech" support (FreeBSD/Mono powered), as seen above. And this honestly impressed me. Microsoft aren't kidding when they claim that VS Code & PowerShell are valued open source projects.

Why I am sharing this you ask? Well... I had a beer ;) but more so: I'm so done with politics (which you mostly see within Linux-based environments btw)... No, it's not "us" vs "them".... that narrow minded thinking is the real problem. You may not like Microsoft, and I really get that even respect as much. But respect.. should be a 2 way street and IMO you cannot deny the fact that some of the MS tech is also pretty impressive.

You DO realize that us "Microsofties" had "msc.exe" around for ... ever since Windows NT released? Around '98 (iirc)? And it only got better and bigger, a consistent admin console which has been around for well over (over!) 40 years.

And given the rich history of FreeBSD, and actually caring about stuff like that, yah... I love it when tech like this comes together. I hope you'll forgive me for excluding the cigar ;) (that's assuming you even know what I am getting to right now ;)).

Thanks for reading!
 
ShelLuser said:
Hi gang!

I "did" something this evening:

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Note: I am well aware that plenty of you guys may not necessarily appreciate this, and I really (!) get that. But you cannot deny the fact that "the power to serve" was heavily tested here, and.. it passed with flying colors? Also: such statements should go more ways, even those you may not like IMO.

What are you looking at: I set up a Hyper-V VM with FreeBSD 15, pure out of habit but the thing is: I had no real use for this right now. Which is when it hit me.. why not play around? Thing about me: I don't go for absolutes.. when it comes to my desktop usage I actually prefer Windows, even got my fingers behind their infrastructure (msc anyone?) and have been a 365 subscriber for many years. PowerShell is one of my huge favorites.

When it comes to servers otoh... I think it's obvious? Oh, that 365? Isn't necessarily about Office, but more so my online storage on OneDrive. Oh, right... fun fact: open standards allow open access, my FreeBSD server... yah, dumps some of its stuff onto OneDrive? But now I'm getting offtopic...

I basically "injected" my FreeBSD 15, KDE powered, setup with major "Microsoft-tech" support (FreeBSD/Mono powered), as seen above. And this honestly impressed me. Microsoft aren't kidding when they claim that VS Code & PowerShell are valued open source projects.

Why I am sharing this you ask? Well... I had a beer ;) but more so: I'm so done with politics (which you mostly see within Linux-based environments btw)... No, it's not "us" vs "them".... that narrow minded thinking is the real problem. You may not like Microsoft, and I really get that even respect as much. But respect.. should be a 2 way street and IMO you cannot deny the fact that some of the MS tech is also pretty impressive.

You DO realize that us "Microsofties" had "msc.exe" around for ... ever since Windows NT released? Around '98 (iirc)? And it only got better and bigger, a consistent admin console which has been around for well over (over!) 40 years.

And given the rich history of FreeBSD, and actually caring about stuff like that, yah... I love it when tech like this comes together. I hope you'll forgive me for excluding the cigar ;) (that's assuming you even know what I am getting to right now ;)).

Thanks for reading!
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Blasphemy !!
 
MG said:
Maybe explain some details like what is it and what does it?
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This setup allows me to write Python code in pretty much the same way as I do on Windows.

Click 'start', open VS Code... and get to work. Almost literally no differences.

Even when I open Konsole.. I set if up so that I get PowerShell (which, as seen, fully supports the environmtn) and ... it works ;)
 
ShelLuser said:
This setup allows me to write Python code in pretty much the same way as I do on Windows.

Click 'start', open VS Code... and get to work. Almost literally no differences.

Even when I open Konsole.. I set if up so that I get PowerShell (which, as seen, fully supports the environmtn) and ... it works ;)
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You can't do anything without a massive engine that enforces a graphical UI that you can't exit from. This is why I don't use Windows. It's a commercial prison made of only software. Everything you see could be a single program.
 
ShelLuser said:
This setup allows me to write Python code in pretty much the same way as I do on Windows.

Click 'start', open VS Code... and get to work. Almost literally no differences.

Even when I open Konsole.. I set if up so that I get PowerShell (which, as seen, fully supports the environmtn) and ... it works ;)
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and when you check it into source control does M$ AI co-own your work? I used to like vscode, but never again...
 
kent_dorfman766 said:
and when you check it into source control does M$ AI co-own your work? I used to like vscode, but never again...
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So... I'm one of those guys who bought into the first Windows phone. I am also one of nerds who not only actually read the licenses (be honest: did you ever do this? Because I have my doubts).

Thing is => I also consulted a close friend of mine, an Apple fanboy just like I am a Windows fanboy within the same context. I had a Windows phone, he had an iPhone. We compared the licenses....

Now, in full honesty: MS had something to prove back then, but I cannot help be convinced that their hard stance on privacy also had its effects in the longer run, even small.. because.. this comparison was a joke: people sold their soul to Apple and.. no one was the wiser? I don't believe that, they were but Apple also had its "culture".

And I am proud that this one is way different.
 
What are some limitations you may be running into using PowerShell on FreeBSD, and have you found ways to work around them? I've been able to successfully install PowerShell and use it, but it was a while ago, and I recall running into some limitations in doing AD and remote computer commands.
 
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