Terminal servers, sccm, SQL, software that’s only available for Windows. Companies and governments don’t consider ideology when they choose a platform. They consider “what do I need to run this product” and “what’s the TCO”. Most larger orgs will have a healthy mix of windows and *nix servers and often a separate team to manage each.

Just about every government and business. I’m guessing you’ve never had a job in IT.

VMs aren’t emulation. Its a full OS running on virtual hardware. Also, yes, azure offers several distros, not just Microsoft’s.

The OS of the bare metal host shouldn’t matter much, if at all, to the guest. If you have a philosophical issue with the hypervisor running under windows I doubt you’d be using azure to begin with.

Its not emulation, it’s a Microsoft distro

Already exists as a VM option on azure

Elitism and gatekeeping.

not talking to the cops, and lots of drugs.

TIL I’m 2/5ths Amish

it’s my time I’m spending on it.

You are being paid for that time. If you sell something it is no longer yours.

So much horrible advice in this thread.

The machine the company issues you isn’t yours, it’s theirs. Wiping out their image and installing another OS is a fantastic way to get fired. If you handle any PII, HIPAA, or PCI data it’s also a fantastic way to get sued or charged with a crime.

I hear the unemployment line is nice this time of year

I started unplugging the Ethernet cable when I leave for work so IT can’t do any behind the scenes when I’m away.

Speaking as an IT guy, don’t do this. Its not your computer, and it’s our job to manage it. If you don’t like the company’s policies go work somewhere else. This is how you get my boss to call your boss into a meeting.

I used macs for 15 years I really should have known that lol.

What distro uses /Users instead of /home? Doesn’t that break the standard?

Get something on .com or .net. Vanity tlds will piss off reputation services. And make sure you set up spf/dkim

From the projects GitHub:

The thing is evidently very buggy but I did not want to spend a lot of time on it. This was done mostly for fun.

It doesn’t sound like even the author takes it very seriously

I had the lock in the corner but I couldn’t make a call or get online, so we are all getting [thing you don’t like] for dinner since I couldn’t ask’. Then I have to troubleshoot and tell them to toggle it off and on again…

“I’m sorry I made my collection of movies available for you to watch for free, I’ll make sure to never do anything like that again”

This will delay Hurd by another 40 years

Only if the app freezes for some time will it give the option for force quit, no other way

taskkill /im filename.exe /f

Or if you have multiple instances of the same executable running, you can kill by PID

Can it dance dance dance and dance dance dance?

I have 3 mail servers at home