B00nie
[H]F Junkie
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Your experience with Ubuntu probably resulted from your lock-down to Windows. You can't think outside the Windows way of doing things anymore so you find anything else confusing. People have been literally brainwashed into thinking there is only the Windows way of doing things. Are you trying to say you can't set up a remote desktop to an Ubuntu server or what?Everyone is another person. It is useless to argue whether Windows or Linux is better (e.g. popular flame wars) because there are so many factors, not many of them pure technological or easy to avoid.
I don't remember the last time I had any major (or mid-minor) problem with Windows on many machines (incl. virtual) for the last 20+ years. I don't use antiviruses, nowhere. Windows Servers run for 5-10 months with no issues, for years and decades.
It's again, the switching barrier which has many layers, not only software. Wine runs most softwares but far from all.
Today I tested Ubuntu server with few graphical UIs. I was yet again astonished by the lack of common sense and features to control most basic functions in the OS.
A server is not only the notorious http or ftp server. One may need GUI for terminal services where you install most normal software on the server and clients log in remotely. Etc.
Windows Server is rock solid, I know it from experience. Given you don't do antyhing stupid that the common home-joe would do, of course - then it could become less stable than Linux, and that's something inherent to all software. Some years ago I could get any Linux to a halt just after few hours of messing around with its settings and/or GUIs.
I see the need to run antimalware, antivirus, anti-MS update scripts etc. a problem by themselves, even if Microsoft didn't decide to reboot the OS while I was in middle of inputting data to an application. Luckily that application feeds directly to the database - I would have been royally peeved if I lost an hour or two worth of data lol.