[mixmastamyk]

(Forgot to mention drive letters, unc paths don't work on the console.)

rdp is no substitute for real deployment tools. That you've spent years working around the issues and recently got headless working seven months ago is not impressive. Not when its been mature elsewhere for decades, for free. Nor is your defensive tone.

The original point I made was that there are impediments to using Windows and many still exist whether you believe them or not. If they didn't Windows Server wouldn't be moving closer to the Unix model with every release.