The Command Line is Overpowered

45 thoughts on “The Command Line is Overpowered”

1. Website Guide: https://christitus.com/why-the-cli-is-op/
   
   Timestamps:
   
   00:00 How is it OP?
   
   01:49 Windows
   
   11:05 Mac
   
   12:22 Linux

2. The point is that most people will not use this method of managing the Windows system, which is why Microsoft's philosophy is built on this long and complex path of the graphical interface. In addition, human physiology is built in such a way that a person tends to forget knowledge and using standard interface tools and prompts he can restore what he has forgotten. And Windows is more of a children's operating system than an adult Linux, which is obvious, but overall the tutorial is clear.

3. can we adjust opacity for cmd?

4. Are there any adventure games people made for command line? Everytime I'm on it I want to type "west"

5. Is CLI overpowered or is the GUI underpowered?

6. I debloated a little too much. In the registry editor I deactivated Windows Security Center and I want to make sure that it start when i boot up my pc. Anyone that can help?

7. So Microsoft has a branch that codes everything for powershell and than GUI department to make it all go to SHIET?

8. Somalian here, I am the captain now.

9. Somalian here, I am the captain now.

10. Hey man, It works great and without any problems.

11. Chris, what's that cool zoom utility you're using there?

12. Windows. One command line tool I constantly find myself using: diskpart

13. One of the main reasons macs are so damn popular in silicon valley is because of the native unix terminal, having the ability to easily interact with linux apps but also not having to worry about bricking your OS is a must have. I love arch on my own time, but could never use it in a professional environment just because i can't risk that downtime. Seriously tho, WSL still sucks ass.

14. CLI isn't overpowered, GUI is underpowered if anything.

15. I've never liked Windows version of all this, but yea am a UNIX/Linux fan of it totally…

16. With the command line, on Linux, you can do

    sudo rm -rf /

    or even

    sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

    Amazingly powerful.

17. I have tried to apply the script on windows 11 and I get various errors in PowerShell of "path not found" "System cannot find the specified file" and "Cannot remove item". Please help.

18. Chris I love your videos and I find them very valuable, but this video did not show me how Window's Powershell is OP.
    I saw you presenting the 'irm' and 'iwr' and a few other commands but that's really it, I didn't see any sophisticated functions or anything really to give this much credit to Powershell or Windows shell in general.
    I am a Linux enthusiastic, however I have used Windows for the majority of my life due to gaming incompatibilities because gaming for me is of top priority.
    In any Linux shell you could really do a lot of sophisticated functions that Windows is simply not capable of doing such as creating a tun device, assigning an IP address to it and have specific traffic routed through it for purposes like tunneling specific traffic through a proxy server (Using a proxy as a VPN). I can't even begin to list all the things you can do in a Linux shell but I can assure you that no other shells are capable of at least 50% of what Linux provide.

19. Hey sir , please help i can't boot into windows its showing Srttrail.txt error.
    And in troubleshoot menu of advanced options when i am trying to do something in cmd its showing unknown under Fs in volume C where my system is installed what to do i can't log in system its just continuous automatic repair diagnosis pc continuous bootlop if i format c drive in cmd here will it help?

20. Lol at the popup appearance at the start 😂

21. Yeah PowerShell and CMD sucks as hell and are the worst shells

22. I used to write annoying Batch scripts to annoy people in the early days.

23. People should NOT depend on command line.

    GUI is better at saving time and resources.

24. I remember back in the earlier days of Windows. There were rumors that the command line would completely go away. We wouldn't even have a command prompt window. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! 🤣

25. "Windows is my operating system… then the ramble on." — You are SO wrong with that comment! Microsoft grants you a license when purchased, you do not own that operating system. At anytime Microsoft can shutdown that operating system with all of the back doors they have coded in. Some back doors are known and some not known. There is NO PRIVACY on Microsoft systems. One update can bring the Microsoft "House Cards" (Solitaire) down. For the money spent on MS I love see a deceit command-line reference book.

26. Keep doing vids like this Titus and we'll all be driving up daisies. 😩

27. Good video.

28. I wrote an RMM in powershell and run it as a service.

29. Calling CLI overpowered shows you don't understand who it's for and why it exists.

30. I was surprised that you got to add a new Edge removal thing in the new winutil script, Chris, since you had mentioned a few time that it was getting more difficult as Microsoft were integrating it and other things, more and more. Is it the illusive "Silver Bullet" you were looking for, or should we expect it probably won’t work so well in the future like most of the other earlier ones?

31. Some of the stuff in this video is a good reminder that Chris’s stuff is actually open source, or better – he does not just give us a great thing, but also keep it open source, and furthermore shows us how to make it ourselves! Can’t get much more transparent then that!
    
    His new windows taming winutil script has though been getting more advanced, complicated, and is calling stuff from elsewhere, which is all making it a bit more difficult to follow from just looking at the script. So I find it helpful when in a video like this and the utility update videos, (like the one probably coming out tomorrow), he adds a bit more clarity to what, where, how things came about.
    
    Very enlightening. Great educational value, IMO.

32. My main computing and programming knowledge was until a year ago, just being mildly competent in Excel and VBA. I got interested in PowerShell from seeing Chris showing us how he and others were using it to tame Windows.
    
    I knew just a little bit of the older traditional cmd thing script lines, and occasionally it was helpful to run some of the older traditional cmd lines from within VBA coding.

    I found it easy to pick up PowerShell. It comes across to me as some mutation of the older traditional cmd stuff and all that Object Oriented Programing, (OOP), Net, COM codswallop which is pretty essential to understand a bit in order to understand and use VBA efficiently and correctly.

    One annoyance to me is that I have not yet figured out how to run a simple PowerShell script line from within VBA, as I can a cmd script line. I would have thought doing a PowerShell command line in VBA would be something very fundamental that someone had figured out by now.
    
    So far any published solutions that I have tried have not worked for me. 🙁
    
    If anyone passing knows how to do it, I would be grateful for a heads up. Thx, Alan

33. aGAIN & Again 🙂 Great job / tutorial Chris !!
    We will follow you as long as you will want ..

34. What is the name of the screenshot program?

35. PowerShell lives up to it's name, especially if you know how to call .Net and COM objects.

36. thanks for your videos. with your advices, i made win 10 pro with all programs i need at 3,5 gigabytes. they work perfectly a year now.

37. From wikipedia:
    "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found that was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors.

    Just sayin'.

    Best regards, friends and neighbours.

38. I had the store block me from installing stuff cause I have my id registered with more than 10 devices. So is powershell a mean to bypass that stupidity? One should create a better store then 😉

39. Why does Windows have runas, cmd, powershell and terminal in the first place. It's a pain to know what can do what.

40. Command Line FTW

41. No matter what functionality Powershell provides, you are still at the mercy of Microsoft. Windows will never be YOUR operating system.

42. Chris, your VIM video has changed my life and I thank you. I never new and now that I have seen the light, I'm not sure I'll ever be the same. Splitting windows, browsing files, jumping and yanking like a crazy person.

43. LMAO the thumbnail

44. I’m a CLI guy for life! 🤓

45. For pretty much all APIs and function libraries there are things there that you can't get to from some GUI. Not surprising. Making a GUI takes some effort and you don't expend it for things you don't think will pay off so well. Windows? Make me gag.

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