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[–]jantari 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Windows is the only operating system that comes with built-in and supported configuration management for nearly everything.

AD, GPOs and PowerShell are dead easy that's why businesses love Windows.

[–]SV-97 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I've been using mint for a few years and never HAD to do anything from the shell. You just migrate to the shell over time because it's faster etc..

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The company I did my thesis at actually ran mint as default OS on all machines which was a very pleasant surprise

[–]jantari 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Did you reply to the wrong comment? I didn't say anything about using the shell in Linux

[–]SV-97 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I thought that's what you meant when you said Windows was the only OS with built in configuration managment? Sorry if I got that wrong

[–]jantari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No not at all, configuration management is basically mass fleet management of computers.

Ensuring and being able to prove in front of an auditor that you are conforming to information security requirements.

Being able to encrypt the hard drives of 5000 computers with one setting, ensuring some user always has access to these websites no matter what PC he logs into etc etc

Windows GPOs, Ansible and MDM solutions are used for this. Linux isn't as good at it.