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I realized that I am torturing myself with software that hardly and incompletely works because at least parts of it are not supported anymore. As a result I am doing the work of a digital archeologist instead of actually advancing my programming skills. People have warned me about this and they turned out to be right.
I have been struggling for two days to be able to program directly in Powershell and came to the realization that I can not make full use of all the neat aspects of this 5.1 version of the software because half of it doesn't work due to having been depreciated. It is a shame, a crime, but not something I can solve before I am an accomplished programmer myself. SO I need to commit a sin to attain the knowledge to undo all sin. Like using a thorn to remove thorns.
Meaning I need to use a currently supported OS to master the profession.
Then begs the question (again): Windows 11 or a current Linux distro - a terrible dilemma for me. Pointers point at Windows 11 since it is old windows that I want to help conserve, in the long run, besides earning money. Not because it is Microsoft''s Windows (I do not want to identify with capitalist corporate multinationals, like many do with Apple) but because it is compatible with the tons of, very decent, useful, software AND endless volumes of older hardware, that came out between 1995 and 2010. The depreciation and turning into waste of all that value is an extreme, unforgivable, crime. But to do something about it I am afraid I now have to go in cahoots with the devil himself.
I have been struggling for two days to be able to program directly in Powershell and came to the realization that I can not make full use of all the neat aspects of this 5.1 version of the software because half of it doesn't work due to having been depreciated. It is a shame, a crime, but not something I can solve before I am an accomplished programmer myself. SO I need to commit a sin to attain the knowledge to undo all sin. Like using a thorn to remove thorns.
Meaning I need to use a currently supported OS to master the profession.
Then begs the question (again): Windows 11 or a current Linux distro - a terrible dilemma for me. Pointers point at Windows 11 since it is old windows that I want to help conserve, in the long run, besides earning money. Not because it is Microsoft''s Windows (I do not want to identify with capitalist corporate multinationals, like many do with Apple) but because it is compatible with the tons of, very decent, useful, software AND endless volumes of older hardware, that came out between 1995 and 2010. The depreciation and turning into waste of all that value is an extreme, unforgivable, crime. But to do something about it I am afraid I now have to go in cahoots with the devil himself.
