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This is great, IMO. The sooner MS abandons Windows on Azure the better for everybody. You could argue that "monoculture" is not good, but, TBH, from a purely pr
by m0zg 7y ago
This is great, IMO. The sooner MS abandons Windows on Azure the better for everybody. You could argue that "monoculture" is not good, but, TBH, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, I struggle to name a single use case where I'd _not_ choose Linux over anything else when the use case is not desktop-oriented (cloud, edge, embedded).
- steve19 7y agoI guess when you want to run software than only runs on Windows, such as IIS. You won't find them here, but there are plenty of Windows-only IT service providers out there. It seems crazy that any system administrator, or programmer, in 2019 would only have any interest in Windows, but they exist and there are a lot of them out there.
- FigmentEngine 7y agoseems to me that windows is still where you are going to find better (or even a driver) drivers for hardware. is this still true? if new cutting edge hardware released does it now have good linux drivers? (sorry i was scarred by the printing experience on linux)
- jorams 7y agoLinux supports much more hardware than Windows. The situation with bad cutting edge hardware support applies only on desktop machines, where manufacturers don't bother with anything but the OS they put in the box.
- la_barba 7y agoDriver support is mostly a non-factor for cloud installs though. You can carefully chose what hardware you use, unlike the desktop, where the end-user can plug in any number of peripherals.