Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3 • Hacker News Board

Re: Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

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Post by bitcrazed » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 6:16 PM UTC

Corrado wrote: post #67

MPSimmons wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you spent any time with PowerShell? It's completely amazing. And I say this as a hard core Linux user since 1996.

I've spent quite a bit of time recently with PowerShell and I have to say that at best, I'm underwhelmed. I can see the potential with PS but there are too many things that are just left out by default. The documentation seems incomplete and very clunky to actually use; it's hard to find what command you want and some docs are just plain wrong. Even using third party docs is frustrating. Honestly, it reminds me of th…

I think you're suffering from PEBCAC ;)

You can append content to a file using >>:

PS C:\Users\rich> "Foo" > 1.txt

PS C:\Users\rich> cat .\1.txt

Foo

PS C:\Users\rich> "Bar" >> 1.txt

PS C:\Users\rich> cat .\1.txt

Foo

Bar

Re: Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

#72

Post by bitcrazed » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 6:19 PM UTC

Corrado wrote: post #67

MPSimmons wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you spent any time with PowerShell? It's completely amazing. And I say this as a hard core Linux user since 1996.

I've spent quite a bit of time recently with PowerShell and I have to say that at best, I'm underwhelmed. I can see the potential with PS but there are too many things that are just left out by default. The documentation seems incomplete and very clunky to actually use; it's hard to find what command you want and some docs are just plain wrong. Even using third party docs is frustrating. Honestly, it reminds me of th…

To your second point, @home is a default variable $home and can be de-reffed from '~':

PS C:\Users\rich> ls ~/.ssh

    Directory: C:\Users\rich\.ssh

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name

---- ------------- ------ ----

-a---- 1/14/2016 19:30 3247 id_rsa

-a---- 1/14/2016 19:30 744 id_rsa.pub

-a---- 1/14/2016 22:12 1595 known_hosts

Re: Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

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Post by cptskippy » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 3:00 PM UTC

Corrado wrote: post #69

mey wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've loaded up Windows 10 IoT for RPI 2 previously. It is a Windows kernel, but otherwise massively cut down. It limits the system to a single running "foreground" application at a time, plus some system services. If you wished to dedicate the device to a single purpose, it's fine, but don't expect a robust shell environment like you would see on a bare bones linux box. It certainly won't support a user using it as a…

Which just makes me wonder what the point of it is. I guess if you really love Windows and want to build an embedded system this would be the way to go. I'm betting that most people that build embedded systems are not Windows developers and I'm not sure that this IoT offering changes anything.

I'm starting to wonder the same thing. I've been looking for a project to try it out on but every time I think I find one, I realize that it's something I can't do with Windows 10 IoT because it lacks a key feature (e.g. printing) and the time it would save on other aspects would be wasted trying to work around it's inadequacies in other respects.