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> Hi! I run the team who made this decision, and I flatly reject the characterization that these changes were made by "recent hires" who are "copying Linuxisms into Windows bug-for-bug."

Hi! I see Microsoft people on "docs.microsoft.com" use forward slashes now in examples that only work on Windows. So, there's that.

If I open the latest version of Windows Terminal, running PowerShell Core (not some Bash thing with some VTY codes or whatever) and I run "Clear-Host", I can scroll back and see content that wasn't cleared.

THIS BREAKS MY WORKFLOW. I used Clear-Host so I can run a command with pages out of output, and then I know that scrolling back will go back to that output only, not something that happened three hours ago but superficially looks identical.

If I do this with PowerShell 5.1 with the old Terminal, it works as expected. It works like it has for the last 40 years of DOS and Windows history.

PS: It's broken even worse in Visual Studio Code.

You guys outright abandoned your user base to pander to Linux users. On Windows. Linux users on Windows. That enormous, huge majority of your paying user base that is apparently more important that the hundreds of millions of people like me.

So yeah, you should reopen the issue and rethink your priorities...




>You guys outright abandoned you user base to pander to Linux users. On Windows. Linux users on Windows.

IMO they're going after developers using Macs. Linux (and Docker) runs better on Windows than it does on Mac OS. They're doing _something_ right.


So you're saying that Linux developers on Macs are now Microsoft's target market?

Not Windows developers on Windows?


Basically it feels like going after the SV crowd coding with macs on starbucks.


It feels like that Blizzard developer Wyatt Cheng that got on stage and asked the PC gamer crowd: "Do you guys not have phones?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5QRgpjfarY

The Windows Terminal guys are similar. "Do you have any plans at all to make this work for users of Windows?" "No."


I feel your pain, what used to be Visual Studio wizards are now CLI tools.

With luck you need to install VSCode and there is an extension to call said CLI.

Who needs VS designers or Blend for Windows UI development? Just recompile and run WinUI applications.

I really don't get it.




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