[HAL9000]

In Windows, if you set the network control panel to obtain an IP address automatically - the most common setting - it doesn't show the address. Then you have to go to your DOS command prompt, type in ipconfig command, and scroll back to find the address. That is a lot of unnecessary crap to ask non-technical users to put up with - because Microsoft doesn't want users to have an easy way to get their current address. Windows treats the users like idiots.

On Mac, a DHCP-assigned address is shown on the network control panel. It's much easier.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

It's even easier than that in linux.

I'm told my ip address every time I turn my machine on.

Mom: "What's a control panel?"

I can just tell her to reboot her machine and look for the only strings of numbers she sees on screen. :-D

It doesn't get any easier than that son. Mom's not pre-disposed to something called a "control panel" any more than a "command line", however she shuts down/reboots regularly.

There's many instances where linux beats both.

[mjwise]

Linked in the spirit of bandwidth preservation:

Step 1

Step 2

How hard is that?!