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Windows is still a disaster for everything but the MS-specific stack exposed through Visual Studio, including (especially?) sysadmin. How do you install softwa
by cookiecaper 8y ago
Windows is still a disaster for everything but the MS-specific stack exposed through Visual Studio, including (especially?) sysadmin.
How do you install software across a fleet of dozens of Windows machines? There are solutions, but they are embarrassingly poor in comparison to what's available on other systems. Salt, Ansible, et al have added half-hearted Windows support over the years, but it's pretty shallow. SCCM is a massive can of worms and very easy to FUBAR.
MS's mental model of "update systems by performing clicks 1, 2, 3, and 4" is just fundamentally limited, as compared to the text-based *nix model. Even MS has been forced to come to terms with it, which is why they're finally adding real pty support, etc.