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I work with Windows and it's AWFUL. Did you know the taskbar is a fucking ELECTRON APP? Everything is so slow. And you have to go through hoops to do what you want, and that setting isn't available in the settings electron app, you have to go through these 5 screens to find the magic button that opens the win 95 style dialog box to set what you want. It's so So SO BAD.

Yeah, Windows isn't that bad, but it's not that good either. On servers, everything requires a million clicks or some random terminal command that's impossible to find documentation for (was just passed down from senior to junior over the ages). I had to configure one for testing (embedded product that needed to work in Windows environments as well as Linux), and it took hours to do the most basic task. Granted, none of us were sysadmins, just devs, but we weren't familiar with Linux or Windows servers, just desktops, and Linux was by far easier to configure.

Don't pick Windows for your server without a good reason, you'll get much more value from learning Linux than Windows.

One day our Linux servers were hosed at work because the Windows server hosting them got all fucked up during Cloudstrike. I’ll never understand why you’d host Linux on Windows rather than the other way around.

I was about to do the same, had the USB stick prepared and everything, then I tried proxmox. Just lucked out.

Wow, thanks, I hated it!

I initially just thought it was bad english, TIL "Windows Home Server" is a proper noun.

Your friend is wise.
He uses the a specific tool for a specific task.

That's actually fine. Though why not regular Windows 7, is there special task for your VM?

Sometimes I forget it's been that long ago. -_-

That's probably true if you consider Linux server vs Windows server. Windows server sucks.

Correct.

Yeah. I justo wanted to make a joke. Srry

A person with a hammer? Why does it need to be difficult :P

Or just go with direct address

"If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."

"When you're MC Hammer, every problem is a nail"

Ping is ICMP

It makes me think of a machine, not a person. I prefer to just use "staff"

Hmmm, well, the "wait" in waiter/waitress/waitstaff refers to the act of serving someone, usually in a restaurant or cafe. (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wait-on?topic=providing-and-serving-meals.) Like a lot of words in English, "wait" has more than one meaning.

There's nothing wrong with "server", per se, other than that we already had an established set of words for that role, and a server was also an existing word for a piece of IT equipment prior to US vernacular shifting (somewhere between the 90s and the 2010s, I think - we've always had a lot of US media pumped into Australia, but the vocab used to align on this one when I was a kid, and then at some point it changed).

Not saying Americans should do things the way we do it (vive la difference), just that the linguistic shift still throws me off. It would probably confuse me less if you'd always called them servers.

Terminal servers, sccm, SQL, software that's only available for Windows. Companies and governments don't consider ideology when they choose a platform. They consider "what do I need to run this product" and "what's the TCO". Most larger orgs will have a healthy mix of windows and *nix servers and often a separate team to manage each.