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Full disclosure, I've used linux since high school, to the point where I am lost as shit on windows. What I'm trying to get at is that the question I'm about to ask is not supposed to be judgemental or disbelieving or anything, I'm just genuinely curious: can you please give me an example of an intermediate config task that's significantly easier on windows than linux? I have a hard time believing such a thing exists, but that's likely because I haven't used windows since like the vista days
OK, one I encountered recently is mounting a network share on user login.
On Windows this required going into My Computer and clicking "Map network drive" then following the prompts.
On Linux this required; adding an entry to fstab then, because the mount needs to occur after network stack initialization but before the user attempts to access the drive, I needed to noauto the fstab entry and create a systemd service using After=network-online.target which actually performs the mount.
Gotcha. Yeah, that does sound like it's a bit easier in windows, fair enough. Still, I'll take a plaintext config file over searching through gui menus any day of the week. But that's just preference and what I'm used to.
I feel like it's the kind of thing that use to be true. I think it's easier to edit a a text file in linux and run the restart service command in terminal than it is to wander through window's new maximum white-space electron GUIs and hope what you're looking for isn't removed in windows 10 or doesn't get reset back to default on next update.
I absolutely agree. I've been very happy with linux for years. I love a well-documented plaintext config file!