A lot of the comments around here are digressing into details about user experience of the desktop versions of various operating systems. The original comment

A lot of the comments around here are digressing into details about user experience of the desktop versions of various operating systems. The original comment was about StackOverflow running on Windows, so the discussion should be more about server rather than desktop experiences. Some people may be surprised to hear that StackOverflow runs on Windows servers because they may have heard a lot of stories a decade ago about Windows servers performing unpredictably under load compared to Linux. I know I did. So I did hear of a server OS accomplishing things better than another server OS. Anecdotal, yes, but there have been improvements to Windows servers since then, and obviously SO is doing well running on them, and I'm sure some people would like to hear about that.