> I prefer Windows because of things like Active Directory, GPOs, DSC I felt the same until we had a bug which broke the network adapters under high throughput

> I prefer Windows because of things like Active Directory, GPOs, DSC I felt the same until we had a bug which broke the network adapters under high throughput of packets per second (of course, we didn't know the cause, but the machine was bumped off the network until a reboot which wiped away debug info). Going via the IPMI yielded a "Can't connect to AD" message, and the rotating local "Administrator" account password was unrealistically hard to acquire (ubisofts fault, not windows); which lead to me writing this: https://github.com/dijit/statham https://github.com/dijit/statham (but in Go, this is a rust reimplementation) so that we could all have local accounts. :| > container technology is maturing in Windows as well, especially with Server 2022 and Windows 11. I'm actually using Windows Kubernetes nodes today, it has two huge notable drawbacks. 1) The base container image needs to match the kernel version, meaning you need to build containers for Windows Server 2019-ltsc, Windows Server 2022, Windows 10 and Windows 11 2) The containers are enormous, one of mine is sitting at 6GiB and takes 4 minutes to pull on GKE. and the minor drawback of; the instructions to make a bare metal kubernetes windows worker node are sporadic, outdated and otherwise largely missing.