[coldtea]

>I dislike windows (and by extension, powershell) because a solution such as changing the port the webserver runs on looks something like:

Doesn't look that much different or arcane to how you'd do it in Linux.

Except more structured (which is good).

>What did I just modify? Is it persisted to the hard disk? How do i back that up? How do I revert the change? How do I move this change (and 20 others) from one server to another?

Oh, the humanity of learning a different way of doing things.