> It is literally that simple. Nay, simpler, because authentication is automatic and secure: You keep saying that as if there’s no such thing as secure automat

> It is literally that simple. Nay, simpler, because authentication is automatic and secure: You keep saying that as if there’s no such thing as secure automatic authentication on SSH yet people have been doing exactly that since before AD was even a thing. > Three "Linux admins" failed at this task, and I had to resort to using ChatGPT and then fixing up the result by testing it against a dozen VMs that took me a day to spin up. You do realise that you can get bad Linux sysadmins as well as bad Windows administrators? Plus it’s not really fair to compare managing different distributions to managing a Windows (unless you’re counting Windows 95 and CE as part of your fleet). Most businesses standardise on one Linux distro (or BSD flavour) and only diversify from that if that absolutely have to. It’s not because Linux is harder than Windows. It’s because managing multiple different core stacks is harder regardless of whether that’s Linux and Windows. Or Linux and BSD. Or Windows 95 and Windows XP. Or different base distributions of Linux. The first rule of managing large fleets of servers is homogenise as much of it as you can.