Ethan Sholly, the driving force behind selfh.st, one of the most recognized communities uniting self-hosting enthusiasts, has published the latest results of his annual survey on the community’s preferences, collecting 4,081 responses from self-hosting practitioners worldwide.
No surprise there: Linux is overwhelmingly dominant, chosen by more than four out of five self-hosters (81%). In other words, for self-hosters operating at bare-metal, virtualised, or container-based infrastructure, Linux remains the backbone.
In fact, this result aligns closely with broader trends: according to Wikipedia, Linux holds a 63% share of global server infrastructure. Aside from the hobby aspect, most respondents said privacy was their main reason for self-hosting, which, as you know, remains one of Linux’s strongest selling points. Now, back to the numbers.
Why would anyone pay to use windows for their hobby?
What makes you think any of us are paying for it?
Damn 15 minutes late LMAO
Evaluation version timer reset every 3 months.
6 months?
I have like a half dozen licenses from over a decade ago as a student
I have paid for windows I think once in my life
Unless you’re trying to practice with Windows server for work, I can’t think of any good reason to use it at home.
If you want a media box, windows used to be a really good option. Back when windows media center was a thing. Not so valuable now though.
Windows media center was really really good for live TV.
Yeah, it was how my family transitioned to digital TV. USB tuner stick + windows media center. And then MS killed it.
Haha, same.
Had a dual tuner pcie card.
Had a great library of recorded movies, had it all set up to rip DVDs, photos were backed up to it and a slideshow album was set as the screensaver.
I just missed the netflix integration, and there was never any decent replacement for that unfortunately.
It was glorious.
In other news, water is wet. (A wetting agent for you pedants)
Water is not a wetting agent. A wetting agent is something added to water to disrupt its surface tension and help it spread across or penetrate a material.
Can’t win. (actually in your camp, last time I got the wetting agent thing…whatever Ima gonna use sky is blue. Or black, sigh. fscking internet. ;} )
Water is statistically extremely likely to be wet. Its almost certainly in contact with other water molecules, and therefore wet :)
I used camp on the “water isn’t wet” side, but I think this is even funnier, and dunking on pedants makes my pedantry superior /j
Because innovation dies the minute licensing gets involved.
My workplace runs several VMMs for clients (ESXi, Hyper-V, etc) - because each Windows guest system needs licensing and has costs, clients spin up as few as possible, shooting the advantages of having services partitioned off right in the foot.
The only machine I have that ever runs cracked Windows Server is a dedicated box for a Space Engineers server, because it’s DS is packaged only for Windows and it doesn’t run correctly in wine or proton yet.
