Petros <Petros.Listig@fdrive.com.au> writes:
Also worth noting that with Linux, you tend to get a huge variance in the way things are set up, depending on the sysadmins who created it. If you bring in a new Linux shop, they may well take quite a while to figure out how everything works, and then want to change it.
I do not think that is true.
I'm a sysadmin. I routinely inherit systems. It's definitely true. Simple things are usually consistent, but Toby's right that it can take a while (weeks/months) to understand all the... quirks and pecadillos of the previous maintainer. I tend to dismiss that as incompetence, but it could be style differences.
It is probably even more consistent over years - compared to the move from Windows XP to Vista to Windows 7 to Windows 8.
I can't comment on Windows systems administration.