On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 03:04:52PM +0000, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
Microsoft Exchange 2016, Domain Controller, and Active Directory are relatively easy to install and configure. Linux-based SMTP servers are extremely difficult to install and configure and of course, extremely time-consuming.
These are extremely subjective statements. For me, I would not be able to set up Microsoft servers in less than 10 or maybe even 100 times the time it costs me to set up similar Linux servers.
To refer to an old joke, that is in fact very true: "UNIX/Linux is very user-friendly, it's just very selective about who its friends are" :-).