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Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server
msmoriarty writes "We knew Windows Server 8 was going to be a departure for Microsoft, including an 'optional' GUI, but in a blog post made earlier this week, the Windows Server team said that working without the GUI will be the 'recommended' method, and is telling developers not to assume a GUI will be present. According to Windows consultant and author Don Jones, this is a big hint to Windows admins that they better get used to not having a GUI in future releases. From the article: 'I'm well aware that many Windows admins out there aren't looking forward to a GUI-less server operating system from Microsoft. ... I'm sure Microsoft has, too.They're proceeding anyway. We have two choices: adapt or die.'"
So we are going back to command line and dumb terminals... how very retro
Maybe call it Prompts from now on?
How are we supposed to play 3D pinball in the server room now?
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
I've been operating "without the GUI" for 2 decades now... never occurred to me that it was a problem...
I, for one, welcome our windowless windows overlords.
But the rest of the reasons are easy to fix. I mean, I'm sure someone would write a Linux program that bogs down the CPU, randomly corrupts memory and adds a few vulnerabilities. They'd just need to sell it for a few thousand per license.
there are 2 ways to look at this.
1. once again, Windows has copied Unix.
2. there is so much bloat that the GUI is the only place they can trim.
Flame on!
LOL
SEEE!!!! I've been saying it for years. A well chosen name does more of for your product than anything else.
PowerShell... your users will think it's powerful while they Bash other shells.
GIMP... your user think it's a lame version of PhotoShop.
OpenSuse is not a reference to a lose woman.
Mono is not... ok, well, maybe it is a disease.
Wine... Will INEbriate.
C Shell phhh wat we at the ocean dude?
Linux will never catch on unless we start renaming things.
You should have used a CLI to automate your paragraphs, which restated the same few (valid) points 6 times. :)
Suddenly Win Admins everywhere switch to Linux because its "easier".
Place nail here >+
This begs the question - how can they call it "Windows" if it has not GUI?
I suppose they can call it "WindowsLess or PaneLess" for the non-GUi version and call the GUI addon "PaneFull"
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
Dude, you are talking to a bunch of Windows "administrators". Most of them dont even know there is a windows CLI :)
Delta-Mike November Bravo Tango
I'm baffled by this because the Windows command line is absolutely, positively useless in every way. It lacks a proper history function, proper tab completion, proper environment variables, it is not possible to configure most things with text files, scheduling tasks is practically impossible, the multi-rooted filesystem is an unfunny joke, and most of all Batch scripts are literally, not figuratively, the least useful form of programming I have ever seen, including taking a shit on a keyboard and hoping for the best. The entire Windows stack is completely inappropriate for use in any business, let alone as a server, and thinking of using it without the GUI makes me fear and hate it even more than I fear and hate Windows right now.
No. No, Microsoft, no. No, no, no. If you want to make the world a better place, here is a three-step plan:
1. Discontinue Windows. Burn it in a fire, and then apologize for it.
2. ???
3. The world is a better place.
You do realize that VNC by it's very nature is graphical?
Quoting to be found later in case I need a new sig.
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.