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This title needs to be qualified: Linux on the desktop is a time killer. I sympathize (which is why I use a Mac), but it's a radically different story for serve

by teilo 16y ago

This title needs to be qualified: Linux on the desktop is a time killer. I sympathize (which is why I use a Mac), but it's a radically different story for servers. I run quite a variety of headless servers. In almost every case, it is easier to setup and maintain an Linux box than a Windows box. Almost every software package I need is a command away. And if I were doing this on Windows, I would still have to mess around configuring the software I installed, so there is no gain there. One command, and all security patches are installed and running - live, and without re-configuring a thing. The only exception is a kernel upgrade, which requires a reboot, but otherwise is trouble-free. Plus, when things break, it is so much easier to get configs transferred and running on a new Linux box, than on Windows. Re-install the software. Restore DBs. Restore configs. You're good. To a degree this is possible on Windows, but it is a lot harder because there are so many black boxes, binary configs, registry keys, etc.

RBerenguel 16y ago
You are completely right, it was my fault with the post title. I think I sounded too against-Linux, which is not what I meant. I love having Linux around, and having Linux installed. But there are times when I don't feel like editing X11 settings from the console again :)
- vetinari 16y ago
  Sorry, but I didn't edit X11 settings for years. Speaking of xorg.conf, it is optional for years. The system works just fine without it.
  - RBerenguel 16y ago
    When I dist-upgraded neither the keyboard nor the mouse worked under X11.
    - vetinari 16y ago
      Yesterday, my Thinkpad running Windows 7 hybernated during sleep. It never woke up from that hybernation. So I did hard reset and it didn't boot (it did boot after second hard reset). What does it have common with your situation? Sometimes shit happens, things go wrong and there is some lurking bug that is hard to duplicate. You wasted few minutes of your time editing xorg.conf. I wasted few minutes rebooting and holding breath. Neither it does make any system bad, nor is it any ground for generalizations. Just hard to find bug.

by teilo 16y ago

RBerenguel 16y ago

You are completely right, it was my fault with the post title. I think I sounded too against-Linux, which is not what I meant. I love having Linux around, and having Linux installed. But there are times when I don't feel like editing X11 settings from the console again :)

vetinari 16y ago
Sorry, but I didn't edit X11 settings for years. Speaking of xorg.conf, it is optional for years. The system works just fine without it.
- RBerenguel 16y ago
  When I dist-upgraded neither the keyboard nor the mouse worked under X11.
  - vetinari 16y ago
    Yesterday, my Thinkpad running Windows 7 hybernated during sleep. It never woke up from that hybernation. So I did hard reset and it didn't boot (it did boot after second hard reset). What does it have common with your situation? Sometimes shit happens, things go wrong and there is some lurking bug that is hard to duplicate. You wasted few minutes of your time editing xorg.conf. I wasted few minutes rebooting and holding breath. Neither it does make any system bad, nor is it any ground for generalizations. Just hard to find bug.