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This makes no sense to me, if business types care about their business data and thats why they use windows, why does the argument start off by pointing out that

This makes no sense to me, if business types care about their business data and thats why they use windows, why does the argument start off by pointing out that all the mission critical stuff like email and customer facing sites run on unix? Even Microsoft runs its mission critical stuff on unix. Windows isn't popular because its good at anything its popular because windows it meets the bare minimum and has a huge marketing budget unix doesn't.

FuriouslyAdrift 5y ago
Windows is an ecosystem, linux is an OS... that's the difference. For the most part, Windows is far far easier to configure and maintain than linux based systems (and I say this as someone who runs a large enterprise system with Windows, Fedora, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, SoNIC, Dell OS10, MacOS, Azure... etc, all mixed together).
- pc86 5y ago
  I would love for you to come work at my company when I was told I couldn't connect my Mac to the VPN "because the network can't support OSX" which is a sentence that doesn't even begin to make sense for me.
  - oblio 5y ago
    That's regular user speak. The user won't care about intricacies, but they've heard of the words "network" and "support" and they'll understand the gist of the problem.
  - FuriouslyAdrift 5y ago
    As an admin, if company policy doesn't forbid it, I'll help make it work. Blocking Mac users for no good reason is just being lazy...
pc86 5y ago
"Windows" is a monolithic thing that can be referred to singularly, even across version. Unix is not. The first thing you need to decide if you want to switch to unix is "which distro," when Windows is the distro.
- dangerface 5y ago
  What windows? Datacenter? Essentials? Standard? which one do I need? will I be missing functions I later need? The answer to all of these questions is it probably doesn't matter that much as they all do the same thing. What distro of linux / unix should you go for? FreeBSD? Fedora? Arch? It probably doesn't matter that much as they all do the same thing.

FuriouslyAdrift 5y ago

Windows is an ecosystem, linux is an OS... that's the difference. For the most part, Windows is far far easier to configure and maintain than linux based systems (and I say this as someone who runs a large enterprise system with Windows, Fedora, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, SoNIC, Dell OS10, MacOS, Azure... etc, all mixed together).

pc86 5y ago
I would love for you to come work at my company when I was told I couldn't connect my Mac to the VPN "because the network can't support OSX" which is a sentence that doesn't even begin to make sense for me.
- oblio 5y ago
  That's regular user speak. The user won't care about intricacies, but they've heard of the words "network" and "support" and they'll understand the gist of the problem.
- FuriouslyAdrift 5y ago
  As an admin, if company policy doesn't forbid it, I'll help make it work. Blocking Mac users for no good reason is just being lazy...

pc86 5y ago

"Windows" is a monolithic thing that can be referred to singularly, even across version. Unix is not. The first thing you need to decide if you want to switch to unix is "which distro," when Windows is the distro.

dangerface 5y ago
What windows? Datacenter? Essentials? Standard? which one do I need? will I be missing functions I later need? The answer to all of these questions is it probably doesn't matter that much as they all do the same thing. What distro of linux / unix should you go for? FreeBSD? Fedora? Arch? It probably doesn't matter that much as they all do the same thing.