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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by dkarl on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:38PM (#23160225)
In the mid 2000s I was working on scientific computing software running on RHEL workstations for a huge oil company. One day our customer inside this huge oil corp told us the entire worldwide company was standardizing on Windows for desktops and workstations. He said not to worry right away, because it would take them years to rip his team's lab full of Linux workstations out of his hands. I'm sure that was a massive, traumatic, and expensive transition that they would not repeat while the institutional memory of it remained, so I imagine they're still on Windows today.
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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by tracker1 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:19PM (#23161297)
That's rough... Unfortunately Windows authentication and access mgt software rules the world... I remember a lot of issues in a few environments with macOS over the years.

At least with wsl2 I get the Linux goodness and decent docker support finally, hopefully it can roll out of insiders in into GA soon so everyone can get their hands on it.

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