[CyberFonic]

I've been wrangling servers for way too long. In my experience it is the many utilities that work together in all nix versions and the scripting that makes routine, repetitious tasks much easier and consistent. So much so that I install CygWin on any Windows boxes that I need to maintain. Point, click, drag 'n drop are a pain when you have to repeat the process a couple of thousand times. Of course, you can download and install specific tools in those cases, but then a slightly different task requires more downloads. With nix you simply edit a script to implement new requirements.