RE: Nothing annoys me quite like linux and using OSS tools
January 22, 2015 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 1:28 pm by Jackalope.)
Why use Linux?
First of all, I'll readily admit that my primary desktop OS is Windows 7 at home, and I have both Linux and Windows 7 Enterprise desktops at work (Linux because our production boxes are all Linux, Windows because our corporate stuff is Windows-centric).
However, my personal network infrastructure is all some flavor of free Unix-like OS. Routers are Linux, my NAS / media server runs FreeNAS, which is derived from FreeBSD, and my webserver is likewise Linux, running in a data center in the Netherlands. (Also, bunch of other devices such as my Rokus run it as well.)
Windows on the desktop fits my needs - of which gaming is a large part. But it makes for a shitty embedded OS for routers, and the software stack I want to run on my NAS and webserver favor *nix - not to mention that remote access is much less painful (remote desktop is just awful, and ever try to administer a Windows server using only Power Shell? Just no).
If it weren't for games, I'd run Linux on the desktop as well. I do run it in a VM (for game-centric use cases, it makes more sense to run Linux in a VM on a Windows host than the other way around).
First of all, I'll readily admit that my primary desktop OS is Windows 7 at home, and I have both Linux and Windows 7 Enterprise desktops at work (Linux because our production boxes are all Linux, Windows because our corporate stuff is Windows-centric).
However, my personal network infrastructure is all some flavor of free Unix-like OS. Routers are Linux, my NAS / media server runs FreeNAS, which is derived from FreeBSD, and my webserver is likewise Linux, running in a data center in the Netherlands. (Also, bunch of other devices such as my Rokus run it as well.)
Windows on the desktop fits my needs - of which gaming is a large part. But it makes for a shitty embedded OS for routers, and the software stack I want to run on my NAS and webserver favor *nix - not to mention that remote access is much less painful (remote desktop is just awful, and ever try to administer a Windows server using only Power Shell? Just no).
If it weren't for games, I'd run Linux on the desktop as well. I do run it in a VM (for game-centric use cases, it makes more sense to run Linux in a VM on a Windows host than the other way around).
