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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by ecshafer on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @10:57AM (#45747666)
This is true, but also really funny considering that even today the average windows sysadmin can still barely use powershell and relies on console clicking and batch scripts. A good unix admin can easily admin 10-100x the machines as a windows admin, and this was more true back in the early 00s. So the marketing on getting the facts was absolutely false.
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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by bigstrat2003 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @03:47PM (#45752089)
Citation needed on that one. I've only worked with a minority of Windows sysadmins who are as incompetent as you say. And yeah, of course a good unix admin can run circles around a bad windows one, but the converse is just as true. A good Windows admin can run circles around a bad unix one. It has nothing to do with the operating systems and everything to do with technical competence of the individual.
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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by ecshafer on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @09:05PM (#45755215)
There are a LOT more bad windows admins than bad unix admins though. The floor of being a unix admin is so much higher that it already filters out a lot of people. There are so many MSPs and small businesses with a windows admin that does everything through a console its crazy. You are right its all about the admin, but on average, the average linux admin is far more comfortable scripting than the windows admin.
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