Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Having worked at places which are majority windows and minority *nix, I
> can honestly say that the windows approach tends to encourage "tasking"
> of "junior" level admins to repetitive tasks by hand, because the
> "senior" admins don't want to do it themselves (i.e., the don't bother
> with scripting).
Certainly is that way at my place of work sometimes. The most common
thing for me to utter when watching someone else to something repetitive is
"... mind if I do something real quick?" Toss vim/python at it, cut the hour+
of grunt work to a 10m scripting exercise.
> I understand what you say about the windows command-line having come a
> long way, but there is a very established culture of GUI-only admins out
> there. I would wager that many of them are so busy putting out fires
> and dealing with other issues that they feel they are too busy to learn
> the new way.
Wouldn't the new way be the old way. I often say that the problems that
Microsoft is "solving" with Windows now were solved 20+ years ago under the
Unix(-like) tools. Prime example would be remote desktops. Windows only
recently, after how many decades of it being out, grasped that maybe people
want to log in from a remote location? How long has XWindows been out doing
just that? ;)
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