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You fail to acknowledge that only a tiny fraction of PC users do anything resembling coding. The average user never ever needs a markdown editor or a C compiler.
I'd almost buy that as an argument if Windows wasn't 90% bloat. So much built in adware, and they allow OEMs to ship with their own adware on top as well.
Most of the things you say are missing are installed by default, though some require you to know how to use the command line. Which reminds me…how do you install the Netflix app on Linux? I’d like to watch some shows on my new laptop while I’m on the train.
Yeah, but can you do it offline/without an active internet connection - the preinstalled windows Netflix app can.
Office365 is 100% installed on Windows, to a fault. The average and above average use dgaf about all that other stuff.
Whoa hey, what about Xbox something-the-fuck and candy crush? I bet your Linix doesn't have that!
Windows 11 snipping tool can also screen record. Browsers can view PDFs these days.
Why would a standard user need any others? That would just be bloat to preinstall them.
I've never seen TikTok or Netflix preinstalled on a clean windows install. Are you sure your experience isn't from images setup by e.g. laptop sellers?
Powershell.
Last I checked, it does indeed have its own PDF Reader, whois tool, FTP client and screen recorder. It has a C compiler available but not installed by default.
It is true that it is a little obtuse. That's because the Powershell language is designed to be a fully fledged scripting language more akin to Python than the shell-like syntax of BASH, with all the advantages and disadvantages that entails. It's also true that cmd.exe (the BASH equivalent) is very underdeveloped when it comes to anything not directly sysadmin related.
No worries, it is a fairly recent addition.
They used to have a GUI client too, but it was built into the browser, and has been removed as of Edge 88.
That I did not know, apologies. How mystifying. You'd think at least a prompt to use a Winget command would make more sense.