Some of it is part of the MS sausage machine, like all the WinRm shite and SMB (endless retching noises)
She shrugs and says "I know. Can you get the data off it?"
I swear we deal with this kind of shit every day.
The Mandalorian was very good, but this is just a cut above, even if it takes a very similar idea.
Take a look at the work done by Open-Source-Ecology's Open Buildings Institute,
https://www.openbuildinginstitute.org/
All of the designs are made to be compliant with the USA building codes. :D
Also dealing with fun shit like someone trying to upgrade their Oracle client (The only company that makes MS look sane) and discovering the uninstaller basically leaves most of the software (and Services!!) behind.
The AD is out of our control, so you get bonkers things happening like the built-in admin account getting disabled via GPO, so you can't add yourself to the admin group on the server, and have to ask someone else to do it, FML
The entire ecosystem is designed- by-committee bullshit. I swear it's intentionally arcane and complex to sell certs.
But look at big tin for example, there is still no way - almost amazingly - to say "I would like this filesystem on that Raid Virtual disk thank you". You can't do it. It's not a use case. You can mount a volume on the filesystem but not anywhere useful.
It does give you a lot of *Nix-like commands (which are aliased to various powershell cmdlets) but it's something, at least.
Powershell is a step in the right direction but Microsoft never found something they couldn't fuck up. Take the security modules: There are *85* cmdlets. Its bonkers.
Take remote administration for example; Windows is incredibly open by default and yet getting this to actually work is surprisingly annoying. Everything about it annoying.
So much busy work to do because of proprietary nonsense, and the whole ecosystem feels like a giant cluttered mess.
FOSS, motorbikes, and photography.