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by acdha 2642 days ago
This was only true for end-user desktops. For technical work and servers, Windows had a few built-in things and a ton of things which could, with significant work, be installed — nothing like a simple apt-get install for years, which is why so many places switched rather than paying people to spend hours clicking through installers and then troubleshooting why it failed.