I know things have gotten somewhat better, but the amount of wasted time and latency of using RDP and Windows UI for development, testing and production maintenance is insane. Throw in some security requirements of RDP into host 1 to the RDP jump to host 2 and companies are just wasting money on latency. There is, often, not an appreciation of the administrative costs of the delivery. Not necessarily system admin costs, but developer and QA time associated with delivering and ongoing maintenance.
>Throw in some security requirements of RDP into host 1 to the RDP jump to host 2 and companies are just wasting money on latency.
So much this at my job, login to my laptop, login to vpn using password and 2-factor, check out my admin credentials using my login and 2-factor, login to the jump box using my admin creds and a different 2-factor, finally login to the system I need to be on using my admin creds. Multiply the last step by however many systems I need to connect to. Also, the clipboard and screen resolution are going to get messed up along the way no matter how much you mess with the settings.
Oh yeah, been there. I personally find Windows to be a terrible server OS. I'd rather be stuck with a fleet of AIX machines or something equally uncommon (but still nix-ish) than any Windows system.
