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So I was a Windows Engineer for 5-8 years, I started as an open/freebsd admin but the "windows guy" quit, it was a blur of posh and batch scripts, usually to fi
by swozey 3y ago
So I was a Windows Engineer for 5-8 years, I started as an open/freebsd admin but the "windows guy" quit, it was a blur of posh and batch scripts, usually to fix some printer server bs or wipe out someones torrented videos on a SAN. My point is that I noticed Windows machines when I saw them. I'm 39. I started out working (sysadmin) on Win2000. Back when IIS was so terrible it didn't even have a built in URL-rewrite system, you had to pay some 3rd party like $25 to get an IIS extension for it. I had to write my own brute-force detection scripts because there was definitely no Linux bfd service. People would just HAMMER the RDP ports with bad logins and there was NOTHING to mitigate that built in or third party. Change the port from 3889 or whatever? HA! Your Windows customers will never figure out how to log in. Personally as a kid I started with dos 3.0 and then win3.1 blahblah just to play games and encarta.
I don't feel like almost ANYONE in my life used Windows as a personal PC. Every single friend/partner I can recall had a Macbook of some sort. I was always jealous because I couldn't afford a Macbook I always had some old Thinkpad. The first macbook I ever actually bought was the new M1 max a couple years ago.
I have a Windows 11 desktop with a 4090 rtx in it I use for games once a month. I don't mind or hate Windows. In fact it has the best windows management (pop left/right/up/down) system I've ever used.
I remember everyone going insane for Win 95 but I just don't ever see the actual market now. My last 3-5 jobs everyone but maybe a couple of people in sales had Macbooks..
- eipi10_hn 3y ago> I don't feel like almost ANYONE in my life used Windows as a personal PC. Every single friend/partner I can recall had a Macbook of some sort. Let me guess. You live in US, right? Or at least, western countries?
- swozey 3y agoYep USA. But I used to work for SUSE and they were massively prevalent in the EU which I found interesting. They aren't popular here at all.
- eipi10_hn 3y agoExactly as I thought. Every time I see someone saying "Everyone around me uses (some-Apple-products) here", I just show it to my friend/colleague: "Bet you. An American." , and it's true 99% of the time. Here in Asia, Africa... the number of macbooks as personal computers is so small. Right here in Vietnam I'm sitting at a coffee shop with about 10 customers with laptops. 9 are windows, and 1 is macbook. At my lab in Korea with about 30 people when I was studying master there, about 3 or 4 of them use macs. It's a bit funny.
- shrimp_emoji 3y ago> In fact it has the best windows management (pop left/right/up/down) system I've ever used. Spoken like someone who's never experienced KDE. ;)
- rejectfinite 3y ago>My last 3-5 jobs everyone but maybe a couple of people in sales had Macbooks.. And where I work it's all Thinkpads or Dells :) Office 365 suite + Windows 11 + Defender EDR/S1/Crowdstrike + Intune or other MDM/RMM like Ninja/PDQ is an excellent stack for productivity, management, and security. For Mac you need the hardware first, then a google workspace or 365 license, then jamf to manage the fleet + S1/Crowdstrike. But yes for Desktop use it really shines. PC Gaming too is in a better place than ever. Like 500k is on Steam playing BG3 right now.