Nah, that's what actual Linux distributions are for. Linux runs on almost every server and powers nearly the entire internet while Windows is used to play fancy video games.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Linux runs on the majority of webservers. If you were to look at the usage breakdown of servers in general, Windows would probably be more common, by what I’d imagine would be a wide margin. I’ve never in my life seen an enterprise run anything internally besides Windows Server with Active Directory and a majority fleet of Windows workstations. There isn’t really a viable alternative.

Linux is definitely a go-to as a web server, load balancer, or some other appliance, but behind that a lot of the time are a bunch of Windows Servers as well.

[–] dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure is you are joking or serious.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It is a verifiable fact. The vast majority of web services run on Linux.

96.3% of the top million web servers run Linux.

[–] dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was doubting the fact that the only function of windows is to run video games. Literally every business in the world runs on windows PCs

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it's traditional. Businesses adopted computing in the 80s, and Linux wasn't around then. Macs and Windows were. It would just be too costly (in time obviously, not cash) for huge businesses to switch at this point.

[–] Rambi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I feel like that should be incredibly obvious, why would you want to run Windows on a web server outside of incredibly niche situations.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Development and testing, aka playing around