I like it, I think it's a good way to encourage people who otherwise may have not given the linux desktop a chance. I think one of the big hurdles he's going to be getting new users used to the command line. Because I know there's lots of discussion about like how everything should be done with the GUI but when you need help or get support with Linux it's most often going to take the form of a command that you can copy and paste into your terminal and will do what you want. You don't have to have guides with 50 screenshots of what settings to tweak. It's just a line or two of text.

In a way I kind of wish this was how more windows support was handled just because PowerShell is so uhh... powerful.

It might be that Linux is less capable for your use case, but people seem to be generally content with ChromeOS and I think that the standard Fedora desktop install is more capable than that so I think the market exists.