Linked by Adam S on Tue 28th Sep 2004 22:29 UTC
I've been using Windows as a network administrator for just over 6 years now. I've used NT4 servers, 2000 servers, and Windows 2003, and there has been a tremendous improvement with each version. There are still some things that drive me nuts in my job, though, and this is a chronicle of the top five.
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"Hell, Linux also installs media playing apps on a server. This complaint is stupid. It's part of the OS and you get it for free. But how does a media player get in the way of serving webpages (regardless of the OS)."
Linux has, nor will it ever, install a piece of extra software; it is a kernel so stop pretending there is only one linux distribution.
The Media player is annoying because of updates I imagine, and for anal retentive admins it's annoying cause it eats xxxMB of disk space. I imagine much of windows, like IE, is annoying because of this. Often servers run off small hard drives, hooked up to large RAIDs. You use the RAID for data, so you put all your software on the small onboard HD, and so wasting xxxMB on anything you won't ever use is annoying.
But you can remove WMP, but I don't think they make it as easy as it should be.