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It isn't easy for folks that see UNIX everywhere, and nowadays a Linux VM makes more sense than the old POSIX subsystem, that is all.

For better or worse, UNIX has won on embedded and server room.

Despite my UNIX experience across all known vendors, I only use WSL for Linux containers.

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    For better or worse, UNIX has won on embedded and server room.

I think this is the HN bubble at work. Maybe you mean something qualitatively or quantitatively different than I do when you say server room but every client I've worked with in my extremely conservative industry in the past ten years has been running on site, coloc, or cloud "server rooms" on windows.

No, this the cloud speaking, where Microsoft themselves acknowledge Azure has > 60% workloads on Linux.

On embedded most RTOS support some variation of POSIX, even if not fully compliant.

Windows servers seem to be left to Microsoft shops, running a mix of .NET Framework with IIS, SQL Server, Sitecore, Sharepoint, Dynamics, AD.

I’ve spent a long time in non tech enterprise and I think unix won. 15 years ago you would hire someone and they would be proficient in Windows and Microsoft office. Now people have grown up with Macbooks, Chromebooks and mobile/tablets. It’s not a major issue yet, but it’s increasingly becoming one as the generations in the workplace are slowly shifting.

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