Note: Tagged “general” because the fediverse is disproportionately in favor of Linux/FOSS.

In the past, I wouldn’t hold this opinion, but as Windows has become increasingly dumbed down and clouded up, it’s become something of a sore spot to deal with Windows folks.

If something goes wrong and you ask a Windows admin for logs? Good luck. In all fairness, Windows logging is pretty terrible if the software uses the Event logger. Still, pulling logs or checking for obvious issues along those lines is a foreign concept to 90+% of them. Their first action is to reboot. If that doesn’t fix it, go crying to the vendor.

I liken them to “button pushers” who don’t know or care how the button works, why the button works, etc. Is it possible, or even likely, that Windows creates more clueless badmins by sheer size of their market share? Absolutely. But the real problem is that few of them seem intent to actually learn what’s going on under the hood, how, or why. By and large, they care only that when they click “this” button, “that” happens.