Of course the OS matters! Windows is a nasty ball of patches in order to maintain backward compatibility with the 80s. Linux and OSX don't have to maintain all the nasty hacks to keep this backward compatibility.
Also, Crowdstrike is a security (patch) company because Windows security sucks to the point they have, by default, real-time virus protection running constantly (runs my CPU white hot for half the day, can you imagine the global impact on the environment?!).
It's so bad on security that its given birth to a whole industry to fix it i.e. Crowdstrike. Every time I pass a bluescreen in a train station or advertisement I'd like "hA! you deserve that for choosing Windows".
IBM’s z/OS maintains compatibility with the 60’s, and machines running it continued to process billions of transactions every second without taking a break.
The OS matters, as well as the ecosystem and, and this is most important, the developer and operations culture around it.
> Of course the OS matters! Windows is a nasty ball of patches in order to maintain backward compatibility with the 80s. Linux and OSX don't have to maintain all the nasty hacks to keep this backward compatibility.
Just don't tell that to Linus Torvalds :) Because Linux absolutely does maintain compatibility with old ABI from 90-s.
> Just don't tell that to Linus Torvalds :) Because Linux absolutely does maintain compatibility with old ABI from 90-s.
That’s nothing. IBM’s z/OS maintains compatibility with systems dating all the way back to the 60’s. If they want to think they are reading a stack of punch cards, the OS is happy to fool them.
Also, Crowdstrike is a security (patch) company because Windows security sucks to the point they have, by default, real-time virus protection running constantly (runs my CPU white hot for half the day, can you imagine the global impact on the environment?!).
It's so bad on security that its given birth to a whole industry to fix it i.e. Crowdstrike. Every time I pass a bluescreen in a train station or advertisement I'd like "hA! you deserve that for choosing Windows".