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Windows is like categorically maybe the OS most fundamentally unsuited for folks who appreciate sane ways of managing computers

Tell that to the billion-or-so Windows computers that are straightforwardly managed and remoted-into with Active Directory, SMB, and Remote Desktop. Not to mention group policies, registry files, and PowerShell.

It's interesting that these are completely orthogonal approaches. The UNIX world took a lot longer to develop fleet management tools, and when it did they came from a headless server point of view rather than the "hundreds of anonymous desktop machines" point of view.

Powershell remoting achieves similar management objectives to ssh but is a very different interface.

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