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You can also write python and powershell scripts in windows.


Of course, but from my experience opening a CLI is completely unnatural to Windows users, much more than even Mac users.


And most Windows aren't developers. The fact that linux has a CLI isn't a particularly compelling reason not to use Windows though, since Windows also does.


You are not seriously comparing CMD.EXE with gnome-terminal and bash, are you? Come on.


It's a cultural difference and nothing more. On Linux, opening a CLI is something natural and common, something that every user does at times. Hence writing a quick CLI script seems more natural than on windows.




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