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Demos focus on concrete cross‑platform details: installation via Homebrew / apt / snap / MSI, implicit remoting when importing Windows PowerShell 5.1 modules, and real numbers — about 281 million PS7 sessions in 90 days with ~80M on Linux and ~18M on macOS. Code examples use .NET accelerators like System.IO.Path.PathSeparator, handle differing special folders and env vars, and warn that GetTempFileName actually creates files (GetRandomFileName does not).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:00PowerShell cross-platform evolution
3. 5:38PowerShell 5.1 vs 7 differences
4. 12:23Script uniqueness and shebang
5. 15:58Demo: Path and environment handling
6. 23:02Special folders across platforms
7. 28:10Environment variables and temp files
8. 32:26Managing environment variables
9. 36:03Demo: File encoding and line endings
10. 37:31Demo: Platform commands and aliases
11. 41:54Posh-DNS module case study
12. 43:19Demo: Multi-platform profiles
13. 44:24Further resources

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