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Yes! Really, how do you even calculate base64 using Windows? With freakn Microsoft Edge!
Windows don't have preinstalled git, torrent, PDF reader, stresstest, whois tool, FTP client, C compiler, screen recorder, disk imager, markdown editor, 7zip/RAR/tar opener. Most Linux distros have it out-of-the-box and with smaller footprint.
Even Office. Office suite is not preinstalled on Windows, but on Linux is! But what is preinstalled is TikTok and Netflix download shortcut.
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.
Powershell. I checked and the command is like PS > [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([System.Convert]::FromBase64String("YmxhaGJsYWg="))
Noone is going to actually use this. Why it can't be just "base64 -d" like on *nix?
For whois in Windows 11 search results points to a .exe program to download manually from Microsoft site. I didn't know they included recorder recently, my bad. FTP client I didn't know too, still it's a console client and no integration in Explorer.
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.