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Windows Server still has it's place. AD DS, file services, and SQL Server being the big ones. Linux doesn't have apps that do these things 'better'.
by p_ing 2y ago
Windows Server still has it's place. AD DS, file services, and SQL Server being the big ones. Linux doesn't have apps that do these things 'better'.
- EvanAnderson 2y agoI wish MSFT could build Active Directory and the associated constellation of services on Linux. You can make a reasonable simulacrum with Samba but it isn't as well-integrated. (My fever dream wish is for a "distribution" of NT that boots in text mode and has an updated Interix subsystem alongside Win32. Throw in ZFS and it would be awesome.)
- p_ing 2y agoAn NT that boots into text mode wouldn't be terribly useful for software designed for NT today given the high dependency on UI libraries. I too wish for an NT that was CLI-only, striped of services as much as possible. Starting Windows NT... C:\> It's too bad Microsoft has no interest as a business in on-prem software.
- EvanAnderson 2y agoServer Core is close to what you're talking about re: CLI only. I agree re: MSFT having no interest in on-prem software. It saddens me.
- p_ing 2y agoCore isn't close. It's still a graphical interface.
- EvanAnderson 2y agoI guess I misread you, then. I thought you were arguing that a text mode wouldn't be useful. That's why I suggested Server Core. It's CLI, but uselessly framed in a GUI framework. Like I said in my earlier post, text mode NT is my fever dream fantasy. Maybe you were saying the same thing.
- p_ing 2y agoYes, I was saying the same thing. There are very few applications we could run on a text-mode DOS/Linux-CLI type NT due to the upstream dependencies that require (or implement) a graphical interface. Text-only mode would be wonderful even if all you could do is look at a blinking cursor.