• istanbullu
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    4 months ago

    The crowdstrike failure is probably helping Linux.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      This is what I was thinking when it happened. Businesses lose a shit ton of productivity and money due to Microsoft and Windows being a clusterfuck in multiple ways and they decide it’s time to switch to something more stable.

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        4 months ago

        Actually, crowdstrike has a very bad record regarding this, their services even managed to break Debian servers one time.

        Source: some article.

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      4 months ago

      I highly doubt businesses would have been this fast in making the switch.

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        4 months ago

        It helps to move quickly when your entire infrastructure crashes.

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          One crash will absolutely not make this big of an uptick. The amount of highly specialized software and hardware that is OS dependant means switching will only be possible when those companies, hell really entire industries, decide to move over to a more open standard soft/hardware setup. In this case, a crash is a big deal, but the IT teams get on it and fix it in a day or two.

          Also, certain Linux machines were affected by the cloudstrike outage. Even less reason to switch when the alternative was effected as well.