Weird, nice, or mean?

My experience with the desktop Linux crowd has been pretty crappy honestly. Lemmy is a perfect microcosm of that. Guys I just want my computer to get out of the way and let me do what I need to do. I don't want to have to sacrifice a goat to the fickle Bluetooth gods just to get my headphones to pair.

But My experience with Linux on the server side has been amazing, both as an admin and interacting with other admins. The platform is so wonderfully versatile, and the RTFM crowd has mellowed out considerably.

I can't say the same for Windows server. I took MCSA courses in college and the books were horribly written. I was one and a half courses deep before I knew what a "forest" was in context (a bunch of domains), and I only learned that from asking my supervisor at work. The textbooks had been using the term left and right without defining it the entire time. When I went online to ask for guidence or clarification, all I'd get was "You should really know this already." No, I shouldn't I'm paying for these classes precisely because I don't know and I want to learn. MS advertises the MCSA as the foot in the door for windows server admins, which means they shouldn't assume you've been a sysadmin for five years already.

They also don't play to the strengths of the GUI, namely discoverability and less cognitive burden. A GUI should make administration easier by making it easy to find out what you can do and how you can do it, and not require you to remember how to do it. But the courses had you memorizing which buttons to click in which order. It was so stupid. And for what? What runs on Windows server? Just other stuff made by Microsoft? And it costs how much? No thanks.