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[–] Watcher@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The company I work at only works with windows Servers

[–] blkpws@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry for that... I think that must be a pain... not able to just ssh.

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OpenSSH runs on windows server as well. You can definitely SSH in to run commands.

Or just use VSCode to run remote terminals and never leave your own VSCode instance to fully manage all your servers, Windows and Linux.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I have pets too!

[–] blkpws@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You can't use PowerShell or CMD like you do with bash, there are problems also using different commands like SSHFS and other super useful tools, it's like the WSL, they can say they have it, but it works awful. So what's why I say it's a pain...

[–] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does one even made such a decision, who is sane and knows technology?

[–] Watcher@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because our chef's a linux hater and he also got like stuck in the 80s

[–] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

omg... why would you work for a company like this? Working with shitty technology all day could lead to depression.

[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same... The principal engineer on this project also referred to me learning C# as my first exposure to a "real programming language"

After already being advanced in Python

And familiar with C, C++, JavaScript.

I think what he meant by "real" is it comes out of the box with proprietary windows components that aren't going to work anywhere else and don't have human readable code.