On 2016-06-02 John Lange wrote:
you are using an enterprise management tool like System Center, it's
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The same applies to Windows desktop machines. And with Windows 10 it
Ah, yes, I should have specified Windows desktop, and I should have also specified for home use. Maybe I also should have specified pre-10! So pre-10, without fancy enterprise tools or a Server domain, on desktop, say Win7... one cannot upgrade OS (say Vista to 7) without a head and someone present onsite.
Would anyone here argue with me that maintaining Linux over major version upgrades is a zillion times easier than Windows (pre-10, especially without an enterprise environment)? Who doesn't dread a new Windows version and all the breakage (and newly obsoleted hardware) that entails. Every new Fedora I upgrade to I know will break 1-2 things *that will be fixable by me or errata'd soon*. Every new Windows and it's a trip to the hardware store to replace unsupported peripherals, and for any broken/missing software features you just sit back and take it. (I speak as one who maintains for decades a constant ~100 Windows and ~20 Linuxen.)
And yes, I did intentionally leave the "head" ambiguous in the original :-) Sounds funny that way, and everyone here will know what I'm talking about anyhow :-)