
Karen Lewellen via talk wrote on 2024-07-22 18:44:
crowdstrike makes news headlines, many Windows become blue screens
https://www.techspot.com/news/103899-crowdstrike-also-broke-debian-rocky-lin...
Amid the turmoil, it is instructive to consider a little-noticed event earlier this year when a CrowdStrike update caused all Debian Linux servers to crash simultaneously and refuse to boot. It took the cybersecurity provider weeks to provide a root cause analysis, revealing that the update was incompatible with the latest stable version of Debian.
This CrowdStrike incident affected Windows, but these types of issues can affect anything.
it is evident that many people around still use Windows
according to some statistics linux has only 4% desktop market, 73% for MS, 15% for MacOS
why free OS hasn't gained more share even after 30 years of development? Because Big Box retailers don't sell Linux pre-installed on computers.
The power of being the default is incalculable. Google spends ~$18,000,000,000 USD per *year* to be the default search engine in Safari (and on iPhones?) - that's how enormously important the default is. Of course, in the server market, especially for internet (vs intranet / corporate internal) sites, Linux dominates. Linux used to ship with WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) for Windows compatibility. Now, Windows can install WSL (Windows' Subsystem for Linux), which is a complete Linux-within-Windows environment. Gotta keep the developers who require node.js, git, ssh, etc. on the Windows platform, even if it's Linux inside Windows. Many a modern developer how-to guide will give instructions in bash instead of cmd.exe commands, as that's how things are done in "production". MS is clever enough to realize that. rb