Free just got cheaper.
Yeah, I know using free software isn’t a panacea. Still it would be a step in the right direction, plus I could not refrain from the cheap shot at M$ Windows.
Yeah, I know using free software isn’t a panacea. Still it would be a step in the right direction, plus I could not refrain from the cheap shot at M$ Windows.
If half your tills are windows/defender and half linux/crowdstrike then half your tills are going to be working.
For EMS, hospitals, Windows makes sense on the server because they don't know any better. For anyone remotely technologically competent, Windows shouldn't even be considered an option other than as workstations. Linux on the server is the only way and no one can convince me otherwise.
>Linux on the server is the only way and no one can convince me otherwise.
Now meet the sysadmin that thinks the same, but for windows for clients. At the risk of overgeneralizing, people are only for "diversity" when it means supporting their preferred underdog platform (eg. linux desktop). When they're the dominant incumbent it's suddenly "dark pattern", "they don't know any better" and "no one can convince me otherwise".
If the results match: Everything is largely proven to be working as-designed, and the output is assumed to be valid. This is an advantage.
If one breaks: Nothing is proven to be working, but that's no worse than we have today with just one system. This is not a disadvantage.
Crowdstrike shipped a driver that they marked as a mandatory boot driver. The Windows OS could have had more recovery options otherwise.