To me, this is the way linux wins, if it does.
replyProduct teams deciding it's easier to ship on + customers having enough linux familiarity (from their other projects).
And the current crop of Microsoft people on the Windows team don't seem to understand building a platform in the way 90/00s Windows teams did.
It's clear MS moved a lot of their smartest people over to work on Azure products.
Out of curiosity why a custom distro instead of one of the major ones?
replyWe have some special cases I can't go too much into that lend themselves well to rolling our own and stripping things down as much as possible.
replyYou can't abandon Windows because of software X, Y, Z. Over the years vendors move to multiplatform as more and more customers ask for it. These changes are slow but steady. And one day you find out that the last "must have" software is not limited to Windows anymore. That's when the dam breaks.
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