| > Define "more advanced." The most basic: tell Windows the hardware clock uses UTC because I dual boot with Linux (registry). A bit more advanced: Enable TPM + PIN for BitLocker (group policy). At work: set up split-view DNS on a Windows Server (PowerShell). > But I find that in windows more of the options you need are provided by the settings GUIs and handle upgrades well. I beg to differ. I feel like every other month I have to go back and tell Windows that no, I don't want it to consider tabs in Edge as different windows when I alt-tab. It's one of the first things I change. Yesterday I had to go do it again on my gaming PC. Sure, this can be done comfortably in the settings GUI, but it doesn't seem to stick for some reason. > Providing upgrade support for user's arbitrary text configs is significantly harder than for a more restrictive and structured settings database. Oh, I definitely agree with this, and I think that Apple's approach to configuration (as in "there's none") is probably based on this. But I think that Windows is pretty much the poster child for configuration broken up in a zillion different places. I mean, the registry is a meme for a reason, right? |