Cross-platform Memes

Ah, the irony of Microsoft documenting how to install PowerShell on Linux! It's like finding installation instructions for a vegetarian restaurant inside a steakhouse. For years, Microsoft and Linux were sworn enemies—Steve Ballmer once called Linux "a cancer." Fast forward to today, and Microsoft is teaching you how to use their tools on their former arch-nemesis's platform. That's like Darth Vader writing a guidebook on how to build a better lightsaber for Luke. The real kicker? Most Linux admins would rather eat their mechanical keyboard key by key than use PowerShell when they have perfectly good Bash. It's the documentation equivalent of building a bridge that nobody asked for and nobody will cross.

While normies are busy making Windows executable (.exe) memes, cultured programmers are offering the superior alternative—Elves (ELF files). For the uninitiated, ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) is the standard binary file format for Linux and Unix-like systems, the sophisticated cousin to Windows' crude .exe files. It's basically like offering someone a fine aged whiskey when they're drinking store-brand cola. The pun works on multiple levels—both as a Linux superiority joke and a play on the fantasy creature. Compile that with the "trying times" of cross-platform development, and you've got yourself a kernel of comedy that only segfaults in the best way possible.

The eternal battle between path separators! Linux/Mac users wield their elegant forward slashes (/) like Luke's lightsaber, while Windows users come at you with those menacing backslashes (\\) like Darth Vader. Try writing cross-platform code and you'll find yourself in this exact lightsaber duel. Nothing says "I've chosen the dark side" quite like having to escape every single path with double backslashes. May the path.normalize() be with you.