Another shop goes 100% Linux with CachyOS!

[Sky-Knight]

Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 as employee number 30, brought in by Bill Gates.
He wasn’t a technologist, he was a business and sales guy, and he helped turn Microsoft into a serious commercial machine.
In 2000 he became CEO, right as the dot-com bubble burst.
His tenure covered some tough years: antitrust trials, intense competition, and rapid changes in consumer tech.
That said, Microsoft’s revenue roughly tripled while he was in charge.
He pushed hard into enterprise software and oversaw the rise of Xbox as a major business.
Where he’s most criticised is mobile. Microsoft clearly missed the smartphone wave.
Ballmer himself became famous for his loud, energetic, almost theatrical leadership style.
In 2013 he announced his retirement, stepping down as CEO in early 2014.
At that point he still owned about 4% of Microsoft.
That stake was worth roughly $20–25 billion at the time of his retirement.

Today he's got almost 140 billion reasons not to give a rats arse what anyone thinks anymore...

Correct, he's the greedy ruthless business muscle that made Microsoft into the uncaring juggernaut it is today. That isn't to say what he did was wrong, but it's ethically problematic relative to most of us. Anyway, this is a distraction I think. Ballmer is IMHO more directly responsible for the reasons why Windows is the way it is today. Gates and Ballmer both have a hand in it of course, and I'm not a fan of reductive arguments.

I am however happy to see someone making use of Cachy... I need to try that one. I still don't think I can get much traction convincing people to do this, but if costs keep going up the market is going to force the issue at some point. The "when" of this is the real debate. It's been "imminent" for most of my career.

 

[trevm999]

Slowly, Windows just stops being the right tool for the job.

As a software company, we used to write software to run on Windows servers and Windows desktop. Now we write software for Android and Linux servers. We have resource overhead to pay develop locally on Windows, which isn't insignificant at today's hardware prices. From boot to having our full stack running is 32GB of memory in use. At some point it just doesn't make sense to use Windows.

 

[GTP]

But the content of the thread, from the opening post, frames the move to 100% Linux against the backdrop of Microsoft and Windows.

I don’t disagree that Microsoft frames the context. I was more noting the inevitability that even a “100% Linux” discussion still ends up revolving around Windows - which, ironically, reinforces the original motivation for leaving it behind.
As Peter Drucker put it, “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”

 

[frase]

Ballmer himself became famous for his loud, energetic, almost theatrical leadership style.

Cocaine.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Cocaine.

Better than ketamine!

 

[timeshifter]

Developers, developers, developers, … developers

 

[GTP]

Cocaine.

Well he can afford all the "hookers and blow" he can handle....