@pdeker, thank you for the link. This is the sort of information that should be included with any version of Windows, or at least a shortcut to it.
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About 40 years ago , when software came bundled with a printed manual, Microsoft provided good quality DOS manuals. It has been downhill since then.
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My point exactly. I learned the basics of bash scripting from my MS-DOS User’s Manual. If M$'s going to include PowerShell, now, apparently replacing the basic terminal, they should be adding the PowerShell docs for users who need to learn how to use it.
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100% - not to mention it’s pretty ugly, convoluted, overly long command names and long winded command switches / arguments…
And - where you run a *.ps script, e.g. from CMD or PowerShell “shell” itself - there’s NO text editor! WTF?
I’ve only written one PS script - to keep a remote Windows (RDP) session alive (basically simulates pressing scroll lock every so often) :
Clear-Host
Echo “Keep alive w/ scroll lock…”
$WShell = New-Object -com “Wscript.Shell”
while ($true)
{
$WShell.sendkeys(“{SCROLLLOCK}”)
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 100
$WShell.sendkeys(“{SCROLLLOCK}”)
Start-Sleep -Seconds 240
}
I plagiarised that from elsewhere… I really have no idea how it works - but it does, mostly… But kicking it off is a PITA in Windows - so I have a shortcut “lnk” to fire it off :
cat ./Document/work/wiz/nodozing.lnk
P�O� �:i�+00�/C:\V1�V��LSWindows@ �/M.1�V S.q*WindowsZ1�VTSystem32B �/M.1�VT.�
�System32t1/Ma:WindowsPowerShellT �/Ma:/Ma:.�mlhWindowsPowerShell N1/M�Hv1.0: �/Ma:/M�H.�V�v1.0l2�/M�9 powershell.exeN �/M�9/M�9.�t���powershell.exeh-g��
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe%USERPROFILE%Desktop(-File "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\nodoze.ps1"�%�
�wN���]N�D.��Q���`�Xedc-tadmgt01P��cD�O���w�tr��9��PV���P��cD�O���w�tr��9��PV���E �91SPS�mD��pH�H@.�=x�hH���W���K���%
SO UGLY!
Everything you do with PowerShell, looks, and feels, like a tacked on kludge… And PowerShell looks like its trying to be Object Oriented… 
One of the main reasons to keep alive - when it (RDP windows session) goes into screensaver - you have to unlock - AND - RDP will NOT let you paste your password - you have to type it (something keyloggers LOVE!) - so when that happens I usually kill my RDP session and fire it up again (where I can paste my password)… That defeats the WHOLE purpose if its easier to exit and fire up again, than it is to unlock!
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You arent telling me they use the same filename extension as a Postscript file?
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It’s .ps1.
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Yeah - oops - above was a typo…
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Microsoft doesn’t want its users to use Powershell extensively. They are still making it available in the ‘Start Menu’ may be for the corporate system administrators to whom they have to give supports which will require the use of Powershell. But as their greediness and dumbness are growing, I think they will remove it from the Start Menu… may be they will remove it entirely just like the old good Control Panel has been removed from Win11. At this point, I hate Microsoft and their products and that’s why I am trying to use Linux for all of my works and I don’t do normal office works. I only use Powershell to remove all the bloatwares and to disable all the privacy invasive services Windows 10 has using a Powershell script which is freely available on Gihub.
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" Linux powers 39.2% of websites whose operating system is known.
Linux powers 85% of smartphones.
The world’s top 500 fastest supercomputers all run on Linux.
96.3% of the top one million web servers are running Linux."
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Now is the time for Linux to spread among the users like me. 
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There’s absolutely no reason why people shouldn’t at least give Linux a shot if they’re in a pickle over operating system choices nowadays. Here’s my reasoning.
1.) Realistically, Linux isn’t like a long time ago where you needed massive command line knowledge and nothing worked without intense tweaking. With your typical mainstream debian distro, most of your stuff is going to be working out of the box, unless you have something weird.
2.) If you need stuff like Microsoft Office, there are two options. A.) Go with the open source variants like Libreoffice or OpenOffice which is the same damn thing. B.) If you absolutely must have Microsoft genuine product, even if your computer is not capable of running Windows 11, you can fake a TPM in shit like virt-manager and run a Windows 11 VM very nicely, if your computer has enough spec to handle both OSes at once…
3.) FOSS baby.
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One reason is having no experience with installing an operating system. Lots of people have only ever had a computer with Win or MacOS preinstalled.
I know, you can get a computer with Linux preinstalled, but you have to look hard to find one.
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I think if you use your computer enough to be in a quandry about shit like Windows 10 going EOL and needing to get your hands on something, you’re probably literate enough to be able to burn a usb stick and boot off it.
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Thats just it. Lots of people want a computer off the shelf with OS. They dont care which OS, as long as it works.
We need to get Linux desktops and laptops on the store shelves.
We want that in your local store.
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Office 365 is pretty much 100% functional as a web app if you have a subscription…
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What is the cost!!!
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No idea - I’ve never paid - I get access to it from my employer - and in some cases, customers… Note : I can no longer use my employer’s instance - they will ONLY let you login to their Microsoft stuff using their officially issued devices - which frankly is a PITA - and actually slows me down…
But I can access O365 environment for one customer just fine in Firefox (on Linux or MacOS).
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@daniel.m.tripp
I run W11, but I’ll be damned if I will pay for Office 365!!! LibreOffice, runs well enough, with Windows, for our needs at home!!!
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Works fine for me too - I use either Libre Write, Calc - or Google Docs…
Does everything I need… When I do spreadsheets - I nearly always resort to Google Sheets…
But - when working with ugly corporatised / templated documents for work - I have to to use MS Office…
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Its superb for working together on simple projects so easy, but not sure on functions for specialist calculations