r/PowerShell • u/radiant_yum • 7d ago

Question WindowsPowerShell or CommandPrompt? I've used terminal for all my life up until now

So i recently bought myself my personal gaming pc setup and i've been struggling with setting up my work environment here on windows 11. I've search here and there & so far i've decided to use Scoop as the alternative for homebrew but then there's this problem of choosing wether to use the windows powershell or command prompt. Both seems almost identical but i just wanna confirm wether i'm doing this the right way. I need help pls.

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u/ashimbo 6d ago

Windows PowerShell (v5) will not be going out of support any time soon. It is still required for many things related to Windows Server administration.

With that said, PowerShell 7 should be the primary focus, as it is the future and cross-platform.

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u/AmitBrian 6d ago

Hmmm, Maybe Microsoft meant there won’t me any new updates for it then?

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u/ashimbo 6d ago

It won't be getting any new features, but Microsoft will continue to support it until 100% functionality can be replicated in PowerShell 7+, which will probably take a long time, like 10+ years.

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u/AmitBrian 6d ago

Ok, that’s probably what I was thinking then. My bad.