[plug] Rant about Windows Networking (or what I did this weekend)

[skribe]

Now, I'm the first to admit I don't know everything about Windows.  
Particularly the NT side of things that have made their way into XP.  Until a 
year ago I hadn't even used an XP machine.  But over the course of the last 
year, using it nearly everyday at work, I have picked up a thing or two about 
it.  One of these things is that it is an abstruse piece of shit.

Now, I'll also admit that I don't know everything about linux.  But I do know 
that under linux that if I want to network seven computers it won't take a 
trained professional two full days to achieve even basic connectivity.

This past weekend I assisted a 20 year Windows/DOS veteran, who's real job is 
networking at a major ISP btw, connecting the computers at CTV (you might 
remember my rant about this a few weeks ago) and it took two entire days to 
network these seven computers so that we can transfer files and print. And 
the main cause of the problem is that under Windows you have to change about 
twenty different radio buttons, drop-down selectors and text inputs. Not that 
much different from linux - in theory - but under Windows they're not all 
clumped together in the same gui interface like they are under all the linux 
guis I've used.  Oh, no, you have to find them.  And the online help is worse 
than the documentation for the 1999 version of linuxconfig.

It's official. Windows is shit.

I feel better now.

skribe
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