I am a fan of change. Likely similar to the parent of your comment, I am a fan of change when I can control when those changes happen.
With Windows 10 I am sadly realising that I have very little control over when things change and even less knowledge of what those changes will be. For software, this is a nightmare. As a maintainer, I will never know what changes are going to affect my software if I am not informed.
As a user, I no longer know when a feature of my computer that I use daily will disappear. If I used cmd yesterday, will it disappear tomorrow?
Who wants to be the passenger let alone the driver of a car if it steers and accelerates randomly despite your best efforts to steer it and drive it? Would you get in a car that removed the gearstick without warning? Would you really want to be in a car that accelerated and steered at whim?
This is what Windows 10 feels like, particularly compared to my 20 years of using Windows prior to it (Win3.11, 95, 98, Me for a day, XP, Vista for as little as possible, 7 for a lengthy time). With each of those releases, updates were applied by me in a timely manner, with the crucial point being that I could apply updates when I found it applicable for my own personal machine. I could read up on the release notes for each update and service pack to see what was changed.
With Windows 10, I get updates applied in a phantom fashion and do not know what they contain. It's like Apple's vague "fixed an issue" release notes.
EDIT: I must state that the removal of features is not unique to Microsoft, given that sweeping changes affected my Mac after every release since Snow Leopard. However, the key difference is that with Windows 10 you will never have control over when things are installed (unless you use some of the finer controls for updates available with GPOs in an enterprise; still what's the point of having an AD when you don't have full control over the endpoint systems?)
In technology, there's points where certain things stabilize and change infrequently. You can only build great things when your foundation isn't changing all the time.
I'm not really a heavy shell programmer. I mostly use it for git and simple scripts.
IMO, nothing's really "sold" me on powershell. It's always come across as some tool that some people like, but I've never really seen a reason to use it. (As I don't do a lot of complicated things in the shell.)
Hopefully this is something that's easy to get used to.
Not sure how that is related. Its years ago i last time used Windows for anything development related. And honestly i would prefer the old cmd because its easy to install Gow into it. It seemed quite harder to have my common environment working properly in Powershell without actually learning at least some of that syntax stuff last time i tried.
