I don&#x27;t think Windows users appreciate the importance of a good command line accessible over SSH for managing headless systems.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to be too snarky about it, but it&#x27;s a different environment and you&#x27;re complaining that it&#x27;s not as easy as the one you&#x27;re familiar with. &quot;Intuitive&quot; is difficult to quantify; the Windows interface has changed repeatedly in the 7 -&gt; 8 -&gt; 10 era while the basic command line interface hasn&#x27;t, so once you learn it it&#x27;s not likely to be obsoleted. There <i>are</i> Linux UIs with all of the stuff you mention - GNOME has always targeted that market.<p>.NET has its own versioning pain with the .NET frameworks across different versions of Windows. I think it will eventually become more popular on Linux, but only once trust of Microsoft has slowly been rebuilt. Having an open source System.Windows.Forms would help too.<p>(Professionally I&#x27;m a Windows CE developer at the moment, which is a little weird from a Linux background)