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Ah, it’s just a fancy ad. That explains the poor writing.
Linux is better.
ok who the heck uses windows servers? I don’t think even microsoft does.
Too many businesses, lots just started with MS Small Business Server and Upgraded from there. Now they of course are all “upgrading” to MS Cloud Copilot plus max ms365 for Teams ultra or whatever they are calling it today because the CEO was convinced by their marketing Materials.
Just about every government and business. I’m guessing you’ve never had a job in IT.
well, maybe for the active directory, but for pretty much anything else…
Terminal servers, sccm, SQL, software that’s only available for Windows. Companies and governments don’t consider ideology when they choose a platform. They consider “what do I need to run this product” and “what’s the TCO”. Most larger orgs will have a healthy mix of windows and *nix servers and often a separate team to manage each.
Removing the word “windows” in the last frame and also “your dad installs it for your dumb mom” to “your parents install a server. Maybe your mom does it or your dad does it. Maybe you can also help!”
Teaching “children” that technical tasks are for dady to do is so cringe.
Those two little changes and it becomes a readable story.
I agree the language should be adjusted but it doesn’t say or even imply the mom is dumb, that’s a little bit of a stretch.
Yeah it seems to be from the early 2010s, some of the wording would probably be different if it was made today
This seems to be an ad for a windows based product. I agree with your points though.
they had me until
windows home server
It’s clearly the old Microsoft. Current Microsoft would be “Microsoft windows azure home server 365 copilot+Server cloud” (yes it says server twice)
Yes, but current MS Azure+buzzwerds actually works.
WHS was as very, very bad layer on top of NTFS.
Yeah. I justo wanted to make a joke. Srry
Your server isn’t working today.
This is because Microsoft wants you to finish setting up your PC that has been running for ten years.
WHS wasn’t working then either.
It was an awful piece of software, you were better off just pirating Windows Server 2003r2 Standard and using the software raid5 over the WHS flaky overlay system.
They had me u til “your dad installs it”
I wonder if there’s some technical benefit to it. Being familiar with Windows is one benefit ofc but not a technical one.
Man with a hammer rule definitely applies to SAs. If your skills are in Micro$oft then every problem is best solved with MS, even when it isn’t.
I tried to come up with a gender-neutral way of saying ‘man with a hammer’ and failed. Please make some suggestions for me.
A person with a hammer? Why does it need to be difficult :P
Or just go with direct address
“If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”
Yup, that’s the form I’m familiar with. Most idioms avoid gender entirely.
“When you’re MC Hammer, every problem is a nail”
Everytime is hammer time
But you have a Daddy and Mommy who love you!
And, a Windows Home Server! Does that make you happy?
They had me until windows
It’s what turns it from a children’s book into a horror story
Indoctrination.
Imagine growing up with a Windows home server… ugh
I’m usually a Windows “shill” or at least a casual defender of it, as I work in a Windows environment and it’s not as bad as people pretend it is. No shade against Linux, I love it and Windows is bad. Just not like “I’d rather self-castrate” bad.
Anyway…
But for a home server? Either be super lazy and set up samba shares from your Windows desktop for the drives (avoid having a server at all) or bite the bullet and use Linux. You’ll get so much more out of a Linux server that it’s not even funny.
I work with Windows and it’s AWFUL. Did you know the taskbar is a fucking ELECTRON APP? Everything is so slow. And you have to go through hoops to do what you want, and that setting isn’t available in the settings electron app, you have to go through these 5 screens to find the magic button that opens the win 95 style dialog box to set what you want. It’s so So SO BAD.
I’m using it 95% of my time with it by remoting with a program to the server and experience reduced window quality and speed anyway.
I want it finishing the task and not look pretty.And ew. 95 theme. How old are you? At least use Aero/flat and then log off to reduce the 0.5% load from the active user session
I think they are trying to exaggerate how very outdated some Windows UI elements look (primarily dialog boxes?). I doubt they would use a 95 theme on an OS that’s hard to theme and annoying to use.
I’d rather run a rusty nail through my sack than booting Windows
Have fun with that then. Sorry about your balls.
If you’re competent and technologically saavy enough to use a Linux distro as your daily driver, you can learn to make Windows work for you too.
Waste of effort if you don’t need to interact with any Windows environments for school or work, but definitely possible.
For me? I’m happy to get paid to automate shit using PowerShell that should have been basic built in functionality from the start. PowerShell is just the most convenient scripting language due to being packed-in with most Windows installs, and tons of built in functionality for interfacing with other Microsoft products. So as long as Microsoft keeps sucking, I’ve got a comfy paycheck.
And if the year of the Linux desktop ever finally happens? I’m ready, I’ll be cheering, and I’ll be ready to get paid helping companies to make the switch.
After learning too much about Linux it’s impossible for me to use Windows.
It hurts me at every step, making me question my life and everyones sanity who handles that stuff.
It’s very very bad and nobody will pry Gentoo from my hands.
The few times I tried bash it was awful.
At least Powershell let’s me manipulate data more freely and organized.But Linux has way cooler packages (Window Server 2025 finally implemented winget ootb).
I have not used PowerShell that much, because I’m so used to bash that it felt foreign.
There are other shells you can try, more modern, perhaps they will be more to your liking.
Linux has been fine as a desktop since i386 days.
I’d definitely rather boot windows, but to each his own.
Yeah, Windows isn’t that bad, but it’s not that good either. On servers, everything requires a million clicks or some random terminal command that’s impossible to find documentation for (was just passed down from senior to junior over the ages). I had to configure one for testing (embedded product that needed to work in Windows environments as well as Linux), and it took hours to do the most basic task. Granted, none of us were sysadmins, just devs, but we weren’t familiar with Linux or Windows servers, just desktops, and Linux was by far easier to configure.
Don’t pick Windows for your server without a good reason, you’ll get much more value from learning Linux than Windows.
I must admit, my home rack server runs hyper-v, it is free and I have MSDN. Of course inside the hyper-v I run ten linux boxes.
Proxmox really didn’t exists before and I didn’t want to use VMware.
Next one I will do with proxmox.
Please dont judge me.
It’s on the very first page, opposite to the office server page, and they acknowledge the Author does not exist and that it’s basically an ad for Windows server.
True, but this book is the best thing Microsoft has made.
I won’t stand for this PowerShell superhero comic erasure.
Wow, thanks, I hated it!
THE CLOUD — MORE MAGNIFICENT UP CLOSE THAN I COULD HAVE IMAGINED FROM AFAR…
IN DATACENTROPOLIS, WE DREAMED OF ATTAINING SAFE PASSAGE TO THE UTOPIA.
Wow, seriously who tf uses Windows home server?
In 2008? More than you’d think.
Sometimes I forget it’s been that long ago. -_-
Im guessing though. I remember seeing it on 4chan as a teenager so thats between 2006 and 2010 or aomething :p
Your guess is correct. It should be 2007 or so. :)
Well, considering it hasn’t existed in years, I think you can imagine the answer to your question 😅
I initially just thought it was bad english, TIL “Windows Home Server” is a proper noun.
It was perfect until that second to last page
They don’t own a printer then. Or any IOT device. Luckily, the same goes for me.
A children’s book sponsored by Microsoft… No
I thought this was just an elaborate shitpost. that’s so unfortunate.
“They made fun of my router settings!” sobs
I redid this book once, changing words and some pictures to make it for Linux server. I wanted a book that made sense.
Swap windows home server for server on the last page and you’re done.
Until your kid is 7/8, then you need to explain why one server isn’t enough and you need a second server somewhere else for the same reasons it shows a server being important when the computer gets pee on it.
You still got a copy? I’d love to share it with some people
Maybe. I’ll have to see if I can find it. It’s been a few years, but I hope I do still have it. If I do, I’ll share it
This is cute except for the windows name drop. Is this book a Microsoft ad?
Yep, was literally made as a marketing stunt.
I’m pretty sure it came out around the time of Windows home server
Correct.
yeah, this is just child abuse
Those parents deserved to be mocked. Poor child
Why does daddy spend more time with the server than with mommy?
It’s a Windows home server, how else is he going too keep it up.
The home server never cheated on him and had a fling with windows
At first I didn’t noticed the 2nd image, and started wondering what kind of children book this is :P
Plenty of age appropriate “birds and bees” books out there, this is a “packets and pings” one.
Ping is ICMP
I have a friend that insists on using windows server. He is mentally ill
Had*
You shouldn’t abandon friends just because they have a mental problem.
Haha, this book keep popping back up.
Oh so it’s a pop-up book?
