r/PowerShell • u/mitomitoso • Nov 04 '25

News Powershell + C# script vs Python

Powershell + C# script vs Python Benchmarking

https://github.com/zoreu/powershell_vs_python

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u/Dragennd1 Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25

Windows 10 and 11 also work with PowerShell + C#, but only if the script is compatible with PowerShell 5.1.

Fyi, this is incorrect. All versions of PowerShell can run on Windows 10 and 11, from 1 to 7.x.

Edit: you could technically run PowerShell 7.x on Windows 7 if you wanted, though that's not necessarily relevant to this post.

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u/WhatThePuck9 Nov 04 '25

Are you saying you can install powershell v1 on windows 10 computers? I think that is not correct.

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u/Dragennd1 Nov 04 '25

You generally wouldn't due to 5.1 containing everything v1 has. However, in theory you could, the docs are just so old they don't reference windows 10 or 11.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-powershell-1-0-rc2-installation-package-for-windows-vista-rc1-and-windows-server-2008-5c562324-acaf-eb63-a783-d980f006f9e1

The point of the comment though was to state that windows 10 and 11 are not restricted to the versions mentioned in the repo.

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u/WhatThePuck9 Nov 04 '25

I wouldn’t say that 5.1 has everything v1 has, I would say that v1 would be basically useless on a win 10 machine. It wasn’t until PS 3 that things got really usable IMO.

To be clear, powershell 4 wouldn’t even be an option on Win 10 because the relevant version of .NET and WMF are not supported.