I don't really think about azure because I choose not to support Microsoft. Also, as of now I have had very little personal use for running servers, besides things that can easily be hosted almost anywhere.

I'm sure it's convenient for some people with certain projects.

I think Linux is a superior operating system to Windows in almost every way. This is supported by the fact that over 60% of azure servers run Linux [1].

Windows operating system is a walled off garden of intellectual property that wastes billions of dollars every year. Schools, government agencies, hospitals, etc all are spending an incredible amount on proprietary software and this is mainly benefitting a very small amount of people. Yet, thier shitty spyware OS is actually worse then the open source alternative. I think this is a moral failure for humans.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines/...

A startup I worked at a few years ago used Azure. In theory it’s _fine_ but I wasted many hours tracking down phantom issues because the Azure admin UI was super buggy.