You really underestimate the amount of companies using Windows servers to do literally everything.
Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?"
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
It’s funny because without Linux, they wouldn’t have any of their modern luxuries, but they’re usually completely ignorant to that fact, like a bird eating fries off the ground thinking they’re really good at scavenging food.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You know people would just… Use other operating systems, right? The march of Technology doesn’t just halt because Linux never got invented, it likely would have just ended up with smaller machines using a stripped down form of windows
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Yeah, I know that. It would probably be BSD though. Doesn’t change what I said though. They’d be ignorant of whatever else it was. It definitely wouldn’t be Windows though. Proprietary systems would never work for things like server farms that have 500,000 servers.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
BlueScreenofDeath is an operating system? how long was i high for?
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
What are you basing this off of? The alternate histories stock market history?
I promise you if Linux wasn’t invented we would have made another niche product or adapted what we have lol, the world doesn’t revolve around Linux
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I’m basing off of the fact that Microsoft doesn’t even use Windows for their server fleets. Windows makes a terrible server.
strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
IIRC, one of the main reasons Linux is so dominant for server-usage is because it was released before BSD. If Linux had never been made, BSD would very likely have taken its place. If BSD wasn’t made either? Some other Unix-like. Maybe Solaris or Mac. If Unix was never invented, then maybe Windows would take its place.