> That's good, because if running on Linux is what it takes to make something good, PowerShell is good, and has been good since before you created your HN account.

Is there even a single distribution of linux with PowerShell as the default shell?

No, of course not, because PowerShell does not work on Linux. It does not work with coreutils, it does not work with bash, it does not work in any way that's useful to Linux.

> This does not tell you the thing I said the telemetry was added for. Try again. Or don't but if you're going to, at least understand the claim and address it.

If your servers don't have users, then why are they running scripts?

Your servers have users. The users are you, the server admins, whoever's consuming the data being served by them. Your users need to tell you that something is wrong, voluntarily. If you are not getting reports from your users, then you are doing it wrong.

> If you are forgetting the context of the chat, you can re-read it.

'kay. Neat. Nothing was forgotten.

> That is not what I am saying. A team which is fighting to get more funding so it can address more issues is demonstrating that it does care about users.

> I refer you back to my previous comment where I link to the Github where you can see they are interacting with their users, and wonder why you are immediately saying the opposite and thinking that will fly.

It's because you're too stubborn to recognize that you're fighting for things that harm users.

A team which is fighting to get more funding, and debases themselves to do it, is not a good team. A corporation which fosters that kind of thinking is a terrible corporation.

Showing github issues and PRs and stuff? Cool, good interactions.

Trying to justify telemetry by tying it to funding? No, not good.

Get your github issues status to be tied to your funding instead.

> Were you listening at all, or were you just waiting for a chance to tell everyone you don't know what people do with computers, haven't looked, don't care, but are certain all they need is Markdown and a terminal with a tiling window editor?

I'm not sure what you're getting at.

I suppose Markdown came about because it's extremely simple and great for inline code / readmes when contrasted with all of the bloat that comes with HTML, or contrasted with the binary blob that is PDF. It's great and there are plenty of people who don't use Markdown. How do I know? Because I talk to people.

As for a terminal with a tiling window editor? There are plenty of people who don't use terminals, and plenty of people who do. Have you sat down and talked about how and why? Have you tried to actually have conversations with multiple other developers to understand their workflows?

Because if not, then you're only guessing at why people use a given thing. Telemetry doesn't solve that at all.

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