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Windows: I can pay a low skilled admin who knows how to run prebuilt tools

Linux: I require a higher skilled admin who knows how to architect and build things

Because Linux has been built by developers for developers, it eschews braindead administration as a feature, because that's not something its dev community ever required.

That's changed somewhat in the past 15 years, but still lags Windows substantially.


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DrillShopper04/23/2025

Yes, and the low skill, low pay admin is what many companies are looking for, at least for their desktop/notebook fleet.

Server-side, it's almost all Linux