When powershell comes up, someone always gripes about how they can&#x27;t do this or that like they can in bash. I&#x27;m not going to deny that grep is nicer to use that the powershell equivalent (Select-String). But you don&#x27;t configure Windows and other software in the Microsoft ecosystem by messing around with text. For example, if you had a new user and you wanted to set up an account, email address, and phone number (so AD, Exchange, and Lync&#x2F;Skype for Business in Microsoft land), it wouldn&#x27;t just be hard using something like Cygwin, it would probably be impossible. There is just no way to talk to those programs text streams or config files.<p>I guess what I always want to know when people complain about powershell is what they were actually trying to do. I think it&#x27;s an excellent tool for system administration in a Microsoft environment. When you start moving away from that use case, it gets less and less useful.