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Don't they share the same codebase? Of course there's gpedit and probably some other management tools, but I stand by my point that it indicates not prioritizin

Don't they share the same codebase? Of course there's gpedit and probably some other management tools, but I stand by my point that it indicates not prioritizing security, and it makes me supect the military will just have compliance-related differences while the IoT version will have functions somewhat haphazardly removed, with no real improvements on the underlying code. I also have bad experiences with their open-source products (Visual Studio Community, Xamarin, .NET libraries written by them), their IoT for RPi offering. Their consumer OS's require manual cleanup and yearly full reinstalls. I've had software updates break my drivers, and one game (Gmod) on Windows 7 kill my graphics card twice, the second time taking my mobo with it. Their software installation/deinstallation system is unreliable. I've had automatic disk repair completely wreck a hardware RAID 2 setup. I had about two BSOD's a year until I switched to Linux. I think my most stable Microsoft software experience I've had was Age of Mythology, and even that crashed sometimes.

foldr 10y ago
If the devs lack sufficient clues to turn off automount, it really wouldn't matter what OS they used. I think there's a danger of comparing the current solution to some hypothetical perfect solution, which could never in fact be engineered within budget. An interesting comment on the Microsoft blog post: > I have an insider view on this as when the ‘Vangard’ class of subs were being built in Barrow I was a member of the command System trials team…this was long before Windows and Microsoft and needless to say niche software, produced in very small quantities was much, much more unstable and buggy than any Windows release! I remember one long session where the only way the system would pass a particular tiral was for every one to ‘hands off’ their ‘pucks’ (and upside down mouse) for 15 mins. All went well until 2 minutes to go and some one brushed by the puck. The system went down!!! After a very long day we manged to get past this step!! > Give me Windows anytime!!!
Amezarak 10y ago
> Their consumer OS's require manual cleanup and yearly full reinstalls. I don't think this has really been true since the bad old days of Windows ME. Maybe even XP. I've never done a Windows reinstall for myself or for friends since the early 2000s. > I had about two BSOD's a year until I switched to Linux. BSODs too are largely a thing of the past unless you have some kind of hardware/driver issue, in which case you'd of course also have kernel panics, though at least if you have a bad Linux driver you can hope it's open source and fix it yourself. > I've had software updates break my drivers, I don't doubt it, but I can't tell you how often a software update broke sound and/or WiFi in Ubuntu. :) That said, I quit running it on bare metal and ever since I haven't had any issues with updates I can recall. All in all, my experience with hundreds of installations of both, is that enterprisey Linux and both consumer/enterprise Windows are on the same level of reliability, although if you want Windows for reliability purposes you're probably going to spend more time in configuration. I really don't see any issue with running Windows in mission-critical systems.
- tw04 10y ago
  >though at least if you have a bad Linux driver you can hope it's open source and fix it yourself. IF you're the US or UK governments, you can get access to pretty much any driver or OS source you want.
ksk 10y ago
Wow, you must have been really struck with some bad luck. All of my Windows desktops typically see months of uptime (till I reboot for updates). Linux ofcource is equally good now if you choose a reliable distribution. Heres my current desktop which I rebooted 15 days ago http://imgur.com/a/3ZjBE http://imgur.com/a/3ZjBE

foldr 10y ago

If the devs lack sufficient clues to turn off automount, it really wouldn't matter what OS they used. I think there's a danger of comparing the current solution to some hypothetical perfect solution, which could never in fact be engineered within budget. An interesting comment on the Microsoft blog post: > I have an insider view on this as when the ‘Vangard’ class of subs were being built in Barrow I was a member of the command System trials team…this was long before Windows and Microsoft and needless to say niche software, produced in very small quantities was much, much more unstable and buggy than any Windows release! I remember one long session where the only way the system would pass a particular tiral was for every one to ‘hands off’ their ‘pucks’ (and upside down mouse) for 15 mins. All went well until 2 minutes to go and some one brushed by the puck. The system went down!!! After a very long day we manged to get past this step!! > Give me Windows anytime!!!

Amezarak 10y ago

> Their consumer OS's require manual cleanup and yearly full reinstalls. I don't think this has really been true since the bad old days of Windows ME. Maybe even XP. I've never done a Windows reinstall for myself or for friends since the early 2000s. > I had about two BSOD's a year until I switched to Linux. BSODs too are largely a thing of the past unless you have some kind of hardware/driver issue, in which case you'd of course also have kernel panics, though at least if you have a bad Linux driver you can hope it's open source and fix it yourself. > I've had software updates break my drivers, I don't doubt it, but I can't tell you how often a software update broke sound and/or WiFi in Ubuntu. :) That said, I quit running it on bare metal and ever since I haven't had any issues with updates I can recall. All in all, my experience with hundreds of installations of both, is that enterprisey Linux and both consumer/enterprise Windows are on the same level of reliability, although if you want Windows for reliability purposes you're probably going to spend more time in configuration. I really don't see any issue with running Windows in mission-critical systems.

tw04 10y ago
>though at least if you have a bad Linux driver you can hope it's open source and fix it yourself. IF you're the US or UK governments, you can get access to pretty much any driver or OS source you want.

ksk 10y ago

Wow, you must have been really struck with some bad luck. All of my Windows desktops typically see months of uptime (till I reboot for updates). Linux ofcource is equally good now if you choose a reliable distribution. Heres my current desktop which I rebooted 15 days ago http://imgur.com/a/3ZjBE http://imgur.com/a/3ZjBE