Subj : Re: Old computer
To   : Atreyu
From : Weatherman
Date : Sat Jun 25 2022 12:00:01


A> I get that fiddling comes with the territory... but for me, once my
A> computers work the way I want them to, they are imaged and left alone.
A> 
A> I just don't have the time anymore... the endless nights messing around
A> with some program or scripts or OS is long over with.

As some know, I am a pretty big fan of home automation and been running Home Assistant for years.  I was one of the rare people running the entire environment on Windows 10 with SQL Server, etc.  It was originally a supported configuration, but a very manual and different process to get working vs the around 90% of others running it on a different OS.

Fast forward to last year - Home Assistant officially dropped Windows support and some of my integrations no longer worked properly.  Fortunately they created an open source OS to run the entire platform in docker containers.  Much easier than native Linux since it is all wrapped together in the OS and no messing with dependencies, etc.

The nice thing about containers is they are not really OS dependant.  Windows can run Dockers as well, so with things virtualed at the application level the OS becomes a tad less important.  

I prefer Windows, but it really depends on what the application was made to run on.  Which is one reason I still run my BBS nodes on eCS (OS/2).  It just works.

- Mark
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