No, they're not really. And IIS is not that bad either. My main gripe with windows and why i won't develop on it anymore is simple that their system is too comp

No, they're not really. And IIS is not that bad either. My main gripe with windows and why i won't develop on it anymore is simple that their system is too complex. I suppose this is the gripe of the article author as well tbh. Windows is horribly hard to learn. In a day, i learned how to create file, directories, change the stats on those, execute diff and patch, an do weird string modifications with grep and cut (and learn to commit and push with git). First day on an UNIX machine. First work week on a windows machine (at that time, i had already built a LFS): we have those two project with two different version of (proprietary JS front framework) and (weird php framework). Those don't use the same version of mycrypt.dll (and others, but this one i will remember for at least two dozen year). With the support of non-intern engineers including a windows DBA, it took us a week to manage to install the two different versions. A week prior, i was linking to a previous version of Ruby for my RoR app (it was around 2013). But since, i really respect windows sysadmin, they are the best of us. I will just never, ever want to work on a windows server again. I like learning, but putting that much effort for this little rewards? not worth.