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0 pointstonymet1y ago0 comments

there's still tons of steps to run an app on it, and they all require a gui and manual input.

There's some automation, but the maturity level is 2/10 compared to linux.

So there's a chicken-egg issue that Windows doesn't provide adequate automation out of the box to create the automation ecosystem that has led to the turnkey solutions available to linux customers.

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zokier1y ago· 2 in thread

Microsoft has PowerShell and DSC as their automation solution. Its pretty ridiculous to say that they are not providing that.

pxc1y ago

PowerShell is cool but there aren't convenient PS interfaces for a huge number of normal tasks on Windows

When you set up your next Windows workstation, set a rule that you perform all of your configuration (incl. application settings, as far as is possible) via PowerShell or other automation. It very quickly becomes immensely frustrating, but doing the same on Linux is much less so (Mac is somewhere in the middle).

You'll also find that when it comes to achieving something you don't yet know how to do, even finding a scriptable solution on Windows is kind of a nightmare because both the Microsoft documentation and every third-party website and blog is flooded with (useless, for this exercise) manual GUI garbage.

DSC is nice, though.

firesteelrain1y ago

I use DSCs too though I prefer Ansible. Sometimes I combine Ansible with DSCs

firesteelrain1y ago

I just use Ansible with OpenSSH from my remote host.

I can also run PowerShell

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