Imagine growing up with a Windows home server… ugh
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moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But you have a Daddy and Mommy who love you!
And, a Windows Home Server! Does that make you happy?
They had me until windows
msage@programming.dev 1 month ago
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I’m usually a Windows “shill” or at least a casual defender of it, as I work in a Windows environment and it’s not as bad as people pretend it is. No shade against Linux, I love it and Windows is bad. Just not like “I’d rather self-castrate” bad.
Anyway…
But for a home server? Either be super lazy and set up samba shares from your Windows desktop for the drives (avoid having a server at all) or bite the bullet and use Linux. You’ll get so much more out of a Linux server that it’s not even funny.
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I’d rather run a rusty nail through my sack than booting Windows
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Have fun with that then. Sorry about your balls.
If you’re competent and technologically saavy enough to use a Linux distro as your daily driver, you can learn to make Windows work for you too.
Waste of effort if you don’t need to interact with any Windows environments for school or work, but definitely possible.
For me? I’m happy to get paid to automate shit using PowerShell that should have been basic built in functionality from the start. PowerShell is just the most convenient scripting language due to being packed-in with most Windows installs, and tons of built in functionality for interfacing with other Microsoft products. So as long as Microsoft keeps sucking, I’ve got a comfy paycheck.
And if the year of the Linux desktop ever finally happens? I’m ready, I’ll be cheering, and I’ll be ready to get paid helping companies to make the switch.
alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d definitely rather boot windows, but to each his own.
Colloidal@programming.dev 1 month ago
I work with Windows and it’s AWFUL. Did you know the taskbar is a fucking ELECTRON APP? Everything is so slow. And you have to go through hoops to do what you want, and that setting isn’t available in the settings electron app, you have to go through these 5 screens to find the magic button that opens the win 95 style dialog box to set what you want. It’s so So SO BAD.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I’m using it 95% of my time with it by remoting with a program to the server and experience reduced window quality and speed anyway.
I want it finishing the task and not look pretty.And ew. 95 theme. How old are you? At least use Aero/flat and then log off to reduce the 1% load from the active user session
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah, Windows isn’t that bad, but it’s not that good either. On servers, everything requires a million clicks or some random terminal command that’s impossible to find documentation for (was just passed down from senior to junior over the ages). I had to configure one for testing (embedded product that needed to work in Windows environments as well as Linux), and it took hours to do the most basic task. Granted, none of us were sysadmins, just devs, but we weren’t familiar with Linux or Windows servers, just desktops, and Linux was by far easier to configure.
Don’t pick Windows for your server without a good reason, you’ll get much more value from learning Linux than Windows.
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I must admit, my home server runs hyper-v, it is free and I have MSDN. Of course inside the hyper-v I run ten linux boxes.
Proxmox really didn’t exists before and I didn’t want to use VMware.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 month ago
One day our Linux servers were hosed at work because the Windows server hosting them got all fucked up during Cloudstrike. I’ll never understand why you’d host Linux on Windows rather than the other way around.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Was Zeus mad you disnt employ Linux?
sj_zero 1 month ago
I was about to do the same, had the USB stick prepared and everything, then I tried proxmox. Just lucked out.
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
The book was written to sell Windows Home Server.
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Still cool.
And actually not a bad idea from MS, but I’m sure they killed it with MSification.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
True, but this book is the best thing Microsoft has made.
Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 1 month ago
@MimicJar @moseschrute *touches finger to earpiece*
...hang on, I'm getting word that the most recent edition of this book will crash your nvram's firmware
vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I won’t stand for this PowerShell superhero comic erasure.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Wow, thanks, I hated it!
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 month ago
THE CLOUD — MORE MAGNIFICENT UP CLOSE THAN I COULD HAVE IMAGINED FROM AFAR…
IN DATACENTROPOLIS, WE DREAMED OF ATTAINING SAFE PASSAGE TO THE UTOPIA.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Funny you mention that…
muhyb@programming.dev 1 month ago
Wow, seriously who tf uses Windows home server?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I feel like it would be easier to learn Linux, even if you still used windows for desktop
muhyb@programming.dev 1 month ago
That’s probably true if you consider Linux server vs Windows server. Windows server sucks.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Windows Server is less of a general use server, and more of just a staging platform for Microsoft’s other specific server based software installs. And even a lot of those don’t co-mingle on the same server well.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In 2008? More than you’d think.
muhyb@programming.dev 1 month ago
Sometimes I forget it’s been that long ago. -_-
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Im guessing though. I remember seeing it on 4chan as a teenager so thats between 2006 and 2010 or aomething :p
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Well, considering it hasn’t existed in years, I think you can imagine the answer to your question 😅
HelloHotel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I initially just thought it was bad english, TIL “Windows Home Server” is a proper noun.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It was perfect until that last line
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It’s on the very first page, opposite to the office server page, and they acknowledge the Author does not exist and that it’s basically an ad for Windows server.
brandon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s what turns it from a children’s book into a horror story
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Indoctrination.