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Re:Windows on Raspberry by ldiracdelta on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:35PM (#23884146)
My experience in general with windows is that you need GUIs everywhere to configure stuff, whereas linux is text config first. I just deployed 20 pi's at work for a project and remote management on raspbian is fantastic. My BOM for the project is $300 and the previous system's BOM was $3k. Love raspbian.

The other piece is that there are 10 years of raspbian questions and answers on the internet. You have a problem, then someone else has hit it.

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Re:Windows on Raspberry by fortran77 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:50PM (#23884267)
You can do absolutely everything from powershell on the command line, on your local machine or any machine in your network, from Windows 10.
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Re:Windows on Raspberry by ldiracdelta on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:58PM (#23884341)
Sure. It mostly isn't a first class customer, however. We may never have "The Year of The Linux Desktop" because of this, but command line configuration in Linux is the first class use case.
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Re:Windows on Raspberry by cptskippy on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:30PM (#23884578)
I don't agree with the comment you responded to but all server tools for Windows are configured via Powershell, and the GUIs just use the PowerShell Apis.

They started migration back in server 2008 or 8r2 to support Headless/Azure.

The GUI is literally a second class citizen in Windows Server these days.

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Re:Windows on Raspberry by ldiracdelta on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:51PM (#23884739)
Fantastic. My experience is that when I have an issue on Windows my searches give me a ton of GUI screenshots, but in Linux I get text file edits and terminal commands. However I may be doing it wrong.
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Re:Windows on Raspberry by rimjongun on Sunday July 19, 2020 @02:27AM (#23887430)
Not wrong, but things change. As far as OS philosophy, Microsoft has changed rapidly in a short time.
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Re:Windows on Raspberry by vardump on Sunday July 19, 2020 @07:09AM (#23888545)
Well, if it's controllable through a group policy. Otherwise you'll quickly regress to myriads of registry key incantations. Some things take hours or days to figure out how to configure.
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Re:Windows on Raspberry by nl on Sunday July 19, 2020 @03:30AM (#23887661)
You can do everything for the operating system, sure.

But you often can't script X random Windows app via PowerShell, whereas there are very few Linux tools that aren't first class command line citizens.

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Re:Windows on Raspberry by ineedasername on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:30PM (#23884579)
Will it take more time to setup and configure the Pi's than with the $3k system? If not, great! If so, then unless money for a hardware budget is the primary constraint, your time has to factor into the price as well.
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Re:Windows on Raspberry by ldiracdelta on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:47PM (#23884704)
Not for me. Getting windows to do my bidding is almost always a chore for me compared to Linux.
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