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Even if there was an easy way to run windows headless and microsoft didn't charge per-core licenses I actually think the platform itself is the issue-- It's th
by alfalfasprout 2y ago
Even if there was an easy way to run windows headless and microsoft didn't charge per-core licenses I actually think the platform itself is the issue--
It's that windows isn't POSIX compliant. It's easier to port libraries, etc. to run on OSX than it is on Windows. There's all sorts of weird gotchas when porting to windows as well. Setting up many language runtimes, compilers, etc. is all very different and oftentimes poorly supported. There's far smaller of a critical mass of libraries that will run on windows either (natively not on a VM).
- katbyte 2y agoYep. My MacBook and Debian servers act pretty similar from a cli perspective. If it’s in apt it’s nearly always in brew
- bithead 2y agoBrew makes me cringe. Apt just installs what you need and then it's done. Brew makes a thing about updating everything - I'm always reluctant about it. It does make having multiple versions of python fairly easy.
- znpy 2y agoa while ago there was a bit of fuss about Windows having introduced something very similar to containers... in the sense that you could spawn small windows "instances" (I don't remember the correct name) and run applications in there. similar to "containers" (as a bunch of namespaces) rather than jails rather than zones. IIRC Kubernetes could have windows node as well? EDIT: yep... https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/windows/intro/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/windows/intro/
- pxc 2y agoThey are in fact containers. Docker can leverage them, although usually Docker Desktop users are running Linux containers under emulation. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/about/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont...
- firesteelrain 2y agoThe easy way is Server Core and its available in Azure. I posted about it below.