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Windows has it's upsides imo. My personal problem is that I'm so bad at using it.... Set static IP? Traverse down four different GUI applications all the way back to Windows NT -_-
It's not you, it's just that Windows is badly designed.
No! Don't take the fall for what Windows forces you to do. Creating a billion GUI menus for users to get through before reaching what they really want to reach was Microsoft's choice, not yours.
If you have to use Windows and you're power-userish enough to go setting up static IPs, it might be worth learning a bit of PowerShell. You can do everything with it!