Windows servers long gone, LOL? Our datacenter is filling up to the brim with Windows servers unfortunately. All of our lines of business are shifting from Java development to .Net. WebSphere portal being replaced with Sitecore.
Shall we do an Ubuntu migration party to celebrate the upcoming BE release?
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Try looking outside your garden
Ask Google, Facebook or Amazon what they are using!
I manage 'a lot' of computers and I haven't seen Windows for years.P.S. there is a reason why most smart IT businesses use on GNU/Linux on their systems. This is because if you rely on a closed and proprietary platform, your vendor can decide any day to drop support or to start charging exorbitant fees or to go out of business, and in that case you are screwed. This is the so called 'lock in'effect that every smart manager tries to avoid whenever possible. And in any case you are forced to play by their rules.
This is the main reason why Valve is leading gaming out of Windows.
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That's... not the case at all. If you look at low-end hardware (dual core 1GHz ARM, 512MB RAM), Windows-kernel based operating systems run notably more smoothly and performant than Linux-kernel OS's.
I'm not. Haven't needed to reinstall Windows since Vista.
Funny that, Windows is the only OS that supports hardware accelerated encryption on SSDs with OPAL and IEEE-1667 via eDrive.
I use sftp just fine in Windows.
Yeah, Windows can do all that. I bet I got rid of my optical drives with Windows before you got rid of your optical drives.
I run git and Mercurial on a daily basis on Windows machines.
I'm not a Unity fan, so I'll pass on Ubuntu. But I did set up a Mint install a couple months ago. 25 - 30 of my Steam games run on Linux, which is about 20-25%. More than I expected, and including some good ones, too. Since then, I've been going back and forth between XP x64 and Mint, but it's still probably 85% in XP since more of my programs run there than in Linux.
I have a Radeon GPU, and once I switched to the proprietary drivers, they've been all right. The open source ones were impressively poor, though. Some games have rather poor OpenGL support, but others are just fine. Haven't tried Civ5 since I prefer 3 and 4 to it. So all my Civ time in in Windows.
Day to day, I don't find any great difference between XP and Mint - they're both pretty good at staying out of the way, they're both stable, and they're both sufficiently lightweight with adequate performance.
I have a Radeon GPU, and once I switched to the proprietary drivers, they've been all right. The open source ones were impressively poor, though. Some games have rather poor OpenGL support, but others are just fine. Haven't tried Civ5 since I prefer 3 and 4 to it. So all my Civ time in in Windows.
Day to day, I don't find any great difference between XP and Mint - they're both pretty good at staying out of the way, they're both stable, and they're both sufficiently lightweight with adequate performance.
Well, it's really a case of both by and large being pretty stable and having pretty good performance. I don't doubt Mint could better take advantage of SSDs, for example, but when I already have 350 MB/s sequential and sub-0.1 ms access times in Windows, it's more of a benchmark advantage than actually feeling quicker in Mint.
