Btw fwiw I fully agree with you. I really like Windows as a desktop OS (or, more accurately, I dislike it the least), but the idea of using a GUI based server is just super weird to me.
Even pre micro I preferred Linux for servers, for this reason primarily. I understand Linux way less well than Windows but I navigated down that insane ISS config panel once, a decade ago, and decided that once was enough :-)
Given Windows' low popularity as a server OS these days it seems to me that plenty devs-who-use-Windows have a similar opinion.
As someone who grew up on Windows machines and got a MacBook Pro in high school, using Windows is extremely painful, and I built many PCs in my gaming phase. In my experience, macOS has been blatantly superior in every way. I found plenty of Arch flavors that I like much better as well.
I’m curious, why is Windows your favorite desktop OS?
Even pre micro I preferred Linux for servers, for this reason primarily. I understand Linux way less well than Windows but I navigated down that insane ISS config panel once, a decade ago, and decided that once was enough :-)
Given Windows' low popularity as a server OS these days it seems to me that plenty devs-who-use-Windows have a similar opinion.