On: Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell?

[jodrellblank]

I strongly recommend against believing people who say PS is not cross platform when it is available for macOS and Linux and is open source too.

[robert_tweed → jodrellblank]

Interesting. Does it actually work though, or does it tend to depend on Windows-specific assemblies to do any useful work?

The main use-case I have for Powershell is remotely administering Exchange. If I could do that from OSX or Linux, then that would be useful enough for me to spend the time learning it.

[NetStrikeForce → robert_tweed]

> The main use-case I have for Powershell is remotely administering Exchange. If I could do that from OSX or Linux, then that would be useful enough for me to spend the time learning it.

I guess you can always do powershell remoting? Apparently it also works from Windows to Linux! https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/866b558771a20c... (got pointed there from this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/4ziw85/anyone_m... )

[Arnavion → robert_tweed]

It's based on .Net Core, so anything not in core PS has to be available there.