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Article misses the biggest drawback: Windows spends a lot of system resources operating a GUI that is entirely unnecessary for a web server or file server. Wind
by snorkel 18y ago
Article misses the biggest drawback: Windows spends a lot of system resources operating a GUI that is entirely unnecessary for a web server or file server. Windows is monolithic, all or nothing, its GUI always has to be installed and running. UNIX started as a server and GUI parts were added later. Windows started as a GUI and network services were an after thought.
- gaius 18y agoA GUI that's doing nothing because no-one's logged in at the console consumes a trivial amount of system resources on any even semi-modern system.
- SAGeek 18y agoWell I wrote the article, and I did not really think of the GUI using system resources. You see, in our case the biggest resource hog is the MSSQL server, and we have quite a few people who have a windows only background and need the Gui in order to do their daily tasks - like add pages to IISAdmin. If I could do away with the GUI I would, but in this case it is a real necessity to administrating the system, and the other drawback is as a reply below noted - it is either all or nothing. Without the GUI you would not be able to use IISadmin properly, not be able to read and diagnose system logs or even administer DNS.