The familiarity of users is not really an argument for an OS being good though, is it? Neither is how deep you’re into the ecosystem. Of course if you say to a windows admin that runs an AD forest with 10k users “you should just switch to Linux because it’s better bro lol” you can’t be taken seriously, but that is not because windows is “better”.

Hell, Windows user, system, and software deployment management was mature before Linux even existed.

Sorry what? I would barely call the mess of AD/AAD/Entra/Intune/whatever “mature” today, the registry is a shitshow, same with GPOs, and you’re saying it was actually good in 1991, on Windows 3.0, 8 years before the first release of AD? Also, what software deployment?

Each has their strengths - Linux is a better choice for general servers, which is why every virtualization platform runs on it, and also why massive file servers, web servers, etc, run Linux. Or for purpose-built solutions.

And which are Windows’? Whenever someone says that “windows has its strengths”, it always seems to boil down to either a) users know how to use it or b) some software I need is not available on Linux. Both are legitimate points and I don’t fault anyone for running windows in those situations, but neither is a point for the OS per se. You listed several for Linux, I’m curious if you can name some for windows that are not the above.

Also, a hacker recently got caught because he was using Windows, so…

So, what? Are you happy a “dangerous criminal” was stopped using undocumented intrusive telemetry or that it demonstrates that skids who use windows exist?