Imagine being dumb enough to run Windows. Running a copy of Windows in a throwaway VM is the only acceptable place to run Windows.
Windows can actually be managed by am IT department and has a massive security ecosystem. If a corporation with more than ten people has to deal with my data, I'd much rather see them use Windows than anything else.
If people chose things according to what is better, marketing would not exist.
lol and we all know why
And so on.
WinNT would be secure if MS ditched Office Macros (or at least hard-sandboxed them) and ran all w9x software on seamless VM's.
I suppose you may not be very experienced. Windows is actually pretty powerful. I am a full time Linux user and still miss how convenient installing things like drivers, weird software, etc was on Windows. I just can't stand the new spyware angle they've taken their consumer offering. It's not hard to configure Windows to be safe and Microsoft is often times better than many linux distros about pushing patches.
A decade ago this was true but today this is utter bullshit. There is a 20% of games that are exclusively Windows, sure.
You wanna play vidya sure have a dedicated Windows box for that, no one will judge you for the Windows part specifically.
>> I am a full time Linux user and still miss how convenient installing things like drivers
If you're buying hardware that doesn't already have drivers in the Linux kernel tree, or you don't have the skills to use DKMS, you should go back to using Windows only. Please uninstall all/any Linux you have.
>> It's not hard to configure Windows to be safe
Tell us we can't take anything you post here seriously without telling us we can't take anything you post here seriously.
I have supported CAD software in business environments that had Windows OS as a dependency. We still virtualized Windows and used PCI pass through. It really wasn't that hard to set up. All the Linux, some Unix (BSD) were managed with Salt States (way simpler than AD).
Yikes. The hands that typed this should not have admin/root access to servers.
I don't. Except this isn't an uncommon opinion. There are literally tomes of knowledge (available via nostarch for example) describing firewall configuration and many other aspects of server administration. My linux desk reference is the size of an encyclopedia.The PfSense book is similarly massive (though that's more of a BSD thing).
In Windows Server's defense most common fixes are available either via console (azure) or through a series of often very simple clicks. Microsoft really nailed the user-friendly GUI-driven experience to setting up a server (mostly) safely and I think that shows in their adoption.
I am not a server admin because they aren't paid enough for all the crap they have to deal with.
Netfilter and PF are capable of doing actual router stuff, you can just skip over that section if you want to.
The "GUI driven" argument is why businesses should just skip over hiring mediocre IT people who don't really "get" servers and just do SaaS. Kinda like how "just use GSuite" replaced all those MS Exchange ""experts"".