alt Hacker NewsYeah good on them, everyone needs to do this. It's nuts Windows is still the go-to for anything these days despite everyone knowing what a parasitic, buggy mess it is. "Easy" shouldn't be the excuse in this day and age. Big orgs and especially government entities should be hiring the people that know what they're doing and get off that crummy platform.
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"Easy" shouldn't be the excuse in this day and age.
I think "Easy" has been the excuse for everything humans do in every day and age.
The money governments sink into Microsoft could have funded a sovereign OSS ecosystem many times over.
It makes sense that everyone uses Windows for gaming, because you can't run games in your browser.
It makes zero sense for businesses to use Windows if they're only doing PowerPoint and video conferences.
> It's nuts Windows is still the go-to for anything these days despite everyone knowing what a parasitic
Linux still doesn't have anywhere near as nice and cohesive as Group Policy, Active Directory etc.
Plus you can pay Microsoft to host it all for you on Azure.