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In time of Windows, around let's say mid 1990s, people thought Windows is irreplaceable. Now turns out Linux is the workhorse everywhere for running workloads
by wg0 3y ago
In time of Windows, around let's say mid 1990s, people thought Windows is irreplaceable.
Now turns out Linux is the workhorse everywhere for running workloads or consuming content. Almost every programming language (other than Microsoft's own SDKs) gets developed on Linux, has first class support for Linux and Windows is always an afterthought.
It has gone to that extent that to lure developers, Microsoft has to embed a Lunux in a virtual machine on Windows called WSL.
Local inference is going to get cheaper and affordable and that's for sure.
New models would also emerge.
So OpenAI doesn't seem to have an IP that can withstand all that IMHO.
- bongodongobob 3y agoLinux isn't the workhorse in any business that isn't tech based. The dev bubble here is pretty strong. I've done IT for a couple MSPs now so I've seen 100s of different tech stacks. No one uses Linux for anything. ESXi for the hypervisors, various version of Windows server, and M365 for everything else. Graphics/marketing uses Macs sometimes but other than that, it's all Windows/MS. Seeing a Linux VM is exceeding rare and usually runs some bespoke software that no one knows how to service or support. Yes, Linux is much more viable these days, but it's not even close to being mainstream.
- ascorbic 3y agoI think GP is referring to servers. Linux may still be tiny on the desktop, but it dominates servers (and mobile)
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- xigency 3y agoSo I’m guessing you have never heard of AWS then…
- bongodongobob 3y agoI'm not talking about cloud. I'm talking about businesses with 1-300 employees. Most of them I've seen use cloud for backups or a few services. Most business stuff is on prem. File storage is probably 50/50 on prem / SharePoint / Google Drive. In the hundreds of business I've worked with, I could count on my 2 hands the number of Linux server I've seen. Most of the stuff they're running doesn't even support Linux.
- xigency 3y agoThe organizations that run the most servers, at the largest scale, run Linux. It makes better operational and financial sense. But sure. The Mom and Pops of America still use Windows. (Who ever got fired for buying Windows?) Yet the backbone of the modern Internet, cloud and web, is built on open-sourced software.
- bongodongobob 3y agoMom and pop is most of the workforce which is what this site seems to forget. Most people don't work for a fortune 500 company.
- xigency 3y agoYeah, that is a fair reality check for us terminal junkies.
- wg0 3y agoTrue. You'll find Windows XP based terminals on many industrial machines. Its pervasive but outnumbered where "running the workloads" comea into picture. The dev bubble is not that small. This very website is I'm pretty sure not served from Windows. Other than stack overflow or few handful of exceptions, very little is actually served from Windows if I'm not wrong.
- bongodongobob 3y agoI'm consulting for a company with 5000 servers right now, and maybe a dozen run Linux. They've still got a few hundred Server 2008 boxes running with EoL licenses. We looked into migrating to Linux but it's not an option.