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by ldiracdelta 2167 days ago
My experience in general with windows is that you need GUIs everywhere to configure stuff, whereas linux is text config first. I just deployed 20 pi's at work for a project and remote management on raspbian is fantastic. My BOM for the project is $300 and the previous system's BOM was $3k. Love raspbian.

The other piece is that there are 10 years of raspbian questions and answers on the internet. You have a problem, then someone else has hit it.
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fortran77 2167 days ago
You can do absolutely everything from powershell on the command line, on your local machine or any machine in your network, from Windows 10.
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ldiracdelta 2167 days ago
Sure. It mostly isn't a first class customer, however. We may never have "The Year of The Linux Desktop" because of this, but command line configuration in Linux is the first class use case.
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cptskippy 2167 days ago
I don't agree with the comment you responded to but all server tools for Windows are configured via Powershell, and the GUIs just use the PowerShell Apis.

They started migration back in server 2008 or 8r2 to support Headless/Azure.

The GUI is literally a second class citizen in Windows Server these days.

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ldiracdelta 2167 days ago
Fantastic. My experience is that when I have an issue on Windows my searches give me a ton of GUI screenshots, but in Linux I get text file edits and terminal commands. However I may be doing it wrong.
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rimjongun 2166 days ago
Not wrong, but things change. As far as OS philosophy, Microsoft has changed rapidly in a short time.
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vardump 2166 days ago
Well, if it's controllable through a group policy. Otherwise you'll quickly regress to myriads of registry key incantations. Some things take hours or days to figure out how to configure.
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nl 2166 days ago
You can do everything for the operating system, sure.

But you often can't script X random Windows app via PowerShell, whereas there are very few Linux tools that aren't first class command line citizens.

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ineedasername 2167 days ago
Will it take more time to setup and configure the Pi's than with the $3k system? If not, great! If so, then unless money for a hardware budget is the primary constraint, your time has to factor into the price as well.
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ldiracdelta 2167 days ago
Not for me. Getting windows to do my bidding is almost always a chore for me compared to Linux.
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