>He joined in 2014, when Windows had a superior shell and remoting system that eliminates the requirement for low-level string parsing tools like sed/awk entirely!
These debates always remind me of this quote (referring to C++) here on HN by another user:
It seems like grappling with these arcane features feels productive, at first.
You enter a flow state and after a while, something works that didn’t work before.
It’s only when you step back and ask what actually got accomplished that you realize it’s time wasted.
That's what Linux feels like to me. People enjoy solving arcane problems, digging through man pages, download esoteric commands. Heck I enjoy this stuff too! Recently I had a lot of fun playing around with parallel compression tools available on Linux.
It's fun... but it's rarely as productive as not having to deal with the challenge in the first place.
There's not much of a debate. Windows as a server is dead outside sme shops. This isn't the 90s anymore. But it is very nostalgic hearing people talk up microsoft. It's not something I'd heard in the last 15 years.
It's fun... but it's rarely as productive as not having to deal with the challenge in the first place.