I respectfully disagree. Having been an admin for both (started out as a Windows developer and NT4 sysadmin, so you can’t say I wasn’t experienced) I’ve always

I respectfully disagree. Having been an admin for both (started out as a Windows developer and NT4 sysadmin, so you can’t say I wasn’t experienced) I’ve always found UNIX to be vastly easier to manage servers. Yes, Bash has a lot of warts (so much so that I wrote my own shell) but Powershell creates lots of new warts of its own. As for automation, Windows doesn’t even come close to UNIX-like systems for east of scripting and automation. There’s just no contest. Bash might be ugly at times but at least its ugliness is consistent. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve found parameters parsed differently between applications (because Windows passes parameters as a single string rather than an array of arguments like POSIX systems), or that so called headless installers still have GUI prompts and/or spin off a non-blocking process so it’s challenging figuring out when it’s complete. Or Powershell routines come back with an unexpected type thus breaking your entire pipeline. Or don’t even support basic help flags so you cannot discover how to use the damn routine to begin with. Or the utterly ridiculous numeric error code that MS returns rather than descriptive error messages. Or its over engineered approach to logging that makes quick inspections of the systems state far more involved than it should be, or even just managing simple things like software updates requires while other expensive 3rd party solutions because the whole application and OS package management situation is fundamentally broken at its foundations …I could go on. But suffice to say there’s so many painful edge cases to consider with Windows. Windows does get somethings right though: RDP is a great protocol and its backwards compatibility story is second to none. But for server administration, Windows feels like a toy OS compared to most UNIX-like systems. As in it has support for pretty much anything you’d want to do With modern server management processes but yet everything it does support it does so in a really awkward and immature (technologically speaking) way. I’m sure it’ll get there though. But likely not before I retire