Ever since Microsoft announced that PowerShell would be made open source, I have been really curious about what it would be like to run PowerShell on a Linux machine. Would it be like managing a ...

Now, believe it or not, you can install and run PowerShell, the Windows shell language, on Linux as an Ubuntu snap. Snaps are containerised software packages.

Even if you have little experience with Linux, getting PowerShell up and running will only take a few simple steps.

An open-source cross-platform version of PowerShell, called PowerShell Core 6.0, has been released by Microsoft that not only runs on Windows, but runs on macOS and Linux as well. Going forward ...

You Can Run PowerShell From Linux and Linux Shells on Windows You don't just have to run PowerShell on Windows or Linux shells on Linux. You can run one from the other.

Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), you can launch Linux applications directly in a Windows 10 command prompt or PowerShell prompt.

“Microsoft wants to earn customers’ preference as the platform for running all their workloads – Linux as well as Windows.