The post you are replying to is talking about "servers", not general desktop usage.

General desktop usage is benign as you describe, any moron can type stuff on a computer, that's why the Windows operating system isn't exactly crucial to those means.

Yes, the universe obeys the laws of thermodynamics, but there are plenty of people who in an isolated context seem to defy that, right? They would rather write a letter than use a computer.

I have enough of a span of knowledge to get the gist of that principle, I've never seen it before, thanks for linking that.

> You clearly have no idea what you're talking about if you think you can walk into a data center and 96% of the servers there are running Linux. That's delusional.

Yeah, Windows dominates the data center environment.

You're defining server to include something no one in the industry actually includes.

Do you actually think any serious computing is done on Windows? Data centers, server farms, render farms, machine learning?

Enterprise IT? really? even then outside of offices that runs on Windows or Schools, RHEL dominates.

I work in software, fyi.

Anything doing actual processing.

Not glorified desktop usage.

No one is thinking about someone's office computers and active directory when looking at the server space.

Also it isn't just the "web", like would you call machine learning web?

No one is running AI on Windows.

Not really sure what your point is, if you're trying to say Linux isn't dominant in the server space you need a reality check.

> 96.3% of the world’s top one million servers run on Linux.

> 90% of all cloud infrastructure operates on Linux,

Also, why are you talking about things like... Solaris? Solaris is <0.1% ms of top servers. It's a statistical error.

RHEL stands for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

> The ability to centrally manage and secure tons of desktops is something that Linux based desktops just don't really have.

?

https://webtribunal.net/blog/linux-statistics/

Sure dude.

In your own words, "People".

It is virtually guaranteed, which is why they say it, doesn't mean they can see where it's at to decide 'when'.

Also, the 2000s? Lol, not really a great time for Linux. You would struggle back then with 95% of the things you plugged in.

No one cares about using NT.

Imo, Windows will die and Linux will takeover, same way it went for everything outside the desktop space, the nature of it is simply better for longevity.

There isn't really a future in a proprietary operating system like Windows. Currently, it has a bunch of APIs that perform better like DirectX + market share, and it will be like that for a while as Linux userspace is fragmented and there isn't a very good solution for the people unwilling to adapt.

No.

> do they know that something divided by zero is infinity?

Something divided by zero in all mathematical spaces you encounter commonly will be undefined, not infinity.