(April 6, 2018 at 4:57 pm)bennyboy Wrote: For the VM power, your place is still outdoing MS by like 2:1 price per unit I think. I'm pretty sure I get free backups tho. How about internet bandwidth? Unlimited?
I think it's 5TB free every month, they charge a small amount after that. Don't think we've ever exceeded that.
(April 6, 2018 at 6:35 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Windows. It just works.
*cough* Ubuntu *cough* Linux Mint *cough*
Was your last experience of Linux in 2007? Things have changed, man.
Quote:Or: dick around with 20 distros of Linux, find libraries and plugins to simulate Windows programs, and spend your programming effort making software that will run on about 0.5% of all computers out there. Free has never been so expensive, amirite?
You don't need to dick around with 20 distros, use Ubuntu or Linux Mint if you are starting out. The others are there because they appeal to different sorts of people. Why do you want to simulate Windows programs, there are plenty of alternatives, or y'know, just use wine: https://www.winehq.org/
Also, I take it you've never heard of OS X (UNIX based), iOS (UNIX based) or Android (Linux based)? Linux dominates the mobile computing market (81% market share), UNIX comes in second (17.9%), and Windows...um..yeah.
Now when it comes to servers, the estimates are that UNIX and UNIX-like systems (e.g. Linux) account for 67% of the market.
So yeah, if you're programming for desktop software alone, you might not have much of an impact. If however, you're writing code for mobile operating systems, or servers, you have a massive amount of market share to play with.
Quote:Also, when I get bored of my browser, I can connect to my VM via rdp and use ITS browser just for punk rock points, or I can play Windows games. $130 / month to play classic Minesweeper on my Android device? Don't mind if I do! But the most efficient use of my Azure Windows Server 2016 Datacenter™ is to do VoIP with myself, making a super-cool echo effect that I can record for posterity. The possibilities are endless! :p
You can't install multiple browsers on your OS? Heck, I think my laptop has 4 installed. Linux has a load of browser support too.
