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[โ€“] Asudox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sure is convenient. You get a user friendly GUI. But the stability, the resource intensity and the spyware. It's really a retarded decision to build your servers on Windows Server.

[โ€“] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but some software, and it's usually a financial application, requires a Windows Server.

I've seen it more than once, as I had to set up the machine, I was dying inside, but there was just no alternative that the accounting could use.