Comment by WillAdams
7 days ago
I dunno that it's that easy to administer --- time was, one of the concerns about NeXTstep was that it was so easy to setup/administer and so reliable that there was so little work involved, IT departments had to be downsized --- say rather that administering Windows is in-line w/ current budget projections/expectations.
It is easy to administer. Nothing come close to Active Directory + Group Policy, not even Entra ID + Intune. Windows in the enterprise is just a completely different beast to what you see in the home, or even small businesses.
If it's so easy to administer, why is my work computer a never-ending series of updates and reboots and annoyances such as a printer list which scrolls through several screen worths of clicks before I can find the right printer?
Probably because you insist that your computer be on at all times, never save your work, and don't allow it to reboot while you're away.
That, or your IT team sucks. The problem with Windows being so easy is that any idiot can do it, and they often do.
Rolling out the updates to a fleet is the easy administration he’s talking about, which is neither optional nor a trivial task.
Printer administration and Windows printer UX are different too, although the endless-printer-list-oh-god-its-not-even-alphabetical situation is more of an admin oversight to a clunky and low priority situation than anything. Small comfort, no doubt.
The downside of it being so easy is that many talentless hacks got jobs maintaining Windows environments for a living, including in your IT department.