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What's the appeal of using a Windows host?

malkia 11y ago
I've posted about video game tools, but one important non-video games related tooling is the visual studio compiler, linker and the whole plethora of tools there. So if you are Mozilla and want your browser to get recompiled for Windows you might use such a service (I don't actually know whether Mozilla is doing this, just giving an idea)
shoo 11y ago
Maybe you ship a software product to windows, and wish to test it.
- JustSomeNobody 11y ago
  Who _does_ that!?
  - nawitus 11y ago
    Millions of software developers.
- malkia 11y ago
  Lots of video game tools/middleware work only on Windows, and only recently other platforms have been considered like OSX, Linux, and others. AFAIK for OSX the only legal option is colocation - e.g. you provide an actual OSX machine, and it's installed for you somewhere for your use or your team (I'm actually not completely sure there). I'm talking about OSX, since lots of these tools above are released for Windows and OSX, but not for Linux (yet).
swozey 11y ago
.net developers find appeal in it.
asitov 11y ago
It's not #1 on HN because no one cares.
- deleted 11y ago
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sz4kerto 11y ago
I can use my my laptop's GPU properly, for starters.
UK-AL 11y ago
Nicely integrated infrastructure? AD integration etc? Lack of choice to. Which sounds bad but can be good. For example Linux you have lots of webservers Apache. Nginx, tomcat all with different config methods. Windows? Add the web server role, use iis and be done with it.
- teh_klev 11y ago
  > Lack of choice to[o]. You can run Apache and Tomcat on windows if you so choose. You can even run nginx (albeit on top of Cygwin) [0]. You also don't need IIS to run HTTP endpoints. That said, IIS7+ is a pretty nice web server (I speak from experience as a shared web hoster ops and dev person). It's got a plethora of knobs and dials for tuning and is extensible (via native or managed code modules and handlers). But as always, horses for courses and all that. [0]: http://kevinworthington.com/nginx-for-windows/ http://kevinworthington.com/nginx-for-windows/
  - UK-AL 11y ago
    I'm not saying you can't run it. It's just that IIS is the default.
  - deleted 11y ago
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  - scooley 11y ago
    Confirming nginx works in Windows -- nginx for our QuickStart guides: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/quick_start/manage_docker https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta... IIS is great too and in-box. It's nice having smart defaults but a lot of options.
- yo-code-sucks 11y ago
  Why the fuck do you need AD in a container that is supposed to be only running a single process? Consider your code quality is shit and overly complex.
NeutronBoy 11y ago
Outside of SV, a significant portion of the world, including most enterprises, run Windows in at least some capacity.

I've posted about video game tools, but one important non-video games related tooling is the visual studio compiler, linker and the whole plethora of tools there. So if you are Mozilla and want your browser to get recompiled for Windows you might use such a service (I don't actually know whether Mozilla is doing this, just giving an idea)

shoo 11y ago

Maybe you ship a software product to windows, and wish to test it.

JustSomeNobody 11y ago
Who _does_ that!?
- nawitus 11y ago
  Millions of software developers.
malkia 11y ago
Lots of video game tools/middleware work only on Windows, and only recently other platforms have been considered like OSX, Linux, and others. AFAIK for OSX the only legal option is colocation - e.g. you provide an actual OSX machine, and it's installed for you somewhere for your use or your team (I'm actually not completely sure there). I'm talking about OSX, since lots of these tools above are released for Windows and OSX, but not for Linux (yet).

swozey 11y ago

.net developers find appeal in it.

asitov 11y ago

It's not #1 on HN because no one cares.

deleted 11y ago
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sz4kerto 11y ago

I can use my my laptop's GPU properly, for starters.

UK-AL 11y ago

Nicely integrated infrastructure? AD integration etc? Lack of choice to. Which sounds bad but can be good. For example Linux you have lots of webservers Apache. Nginx, tomcat all with different config methods. Windows? Add the web server role, use iis and be done with it.

teh_klev 11y ago
> Lack of choice to[o]. You can run Apache and Tomcat on windows if you so choose. You can even run nginx (albeit on top of Cygwin) [0]. You also don't need IIS to run HTTP endpoints. That said, IIS7+ is a pretty nice web server (I speak from experience as a shared web hoster ops and dev person). It's got a plethora of knobs and dials for tuning and is extensible (via native or managed code modules and handlers). But as always, horses for courses and all that. [0]: http://kevinworthington.com/nginx-for-windows/ http://kevinworthington.com/nginx-for-windows/
- UK-AL 11y ago
  I'm not saying you can't run it. It's just that IIS is the default.
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
- scooley 11y ago
  Confirming nginx works in Windows -- nginx for our QuickStart guides: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/quick_start/manage_docker https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta... IIS is great too and in-box. It's nice having smart defaults but a lot of options.
yo-code-sucks 11y ago
Why the fuck do you need AD in a container that is supposed to be only running a single process? Consider your code quality is shit and overly complex.

NeutronBoy 11y ago

Outside of SV, a significant portion of the world, including most enterprises, run Windows in at least some capacity.