Whether has sense to put server Win on the workstation?

Nicholas2012-01-20 16:38:59

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Nicholas, 2012-01-20 16:38:59

Often lately I hear and read that people put Win2k8 on desktops. Not for development / testing / etc. but for everyday work.
Someone tried? Are there any advantages? Or, more precisely, is there a lot of profit in this action?
Thank you!

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charon, 2012-01-20
@pnick

generally answer no .
The division of the OS into client and server in the case of Windows is not accidental. In them, the reaction of the system is configured differently. For example, services (background tasks) have a higher execution priority than regular windowed applications. Some services on the server initially work, but on the client they don’t exist at all - all this affects the system response speed.
The analogy can be this: friends drive a truck, what do you think, can I take BELAZ for the family?

korvindest, 2012-01-20
@korvindest

I have a win 2003 server on my home machine (it has been standing for a long time, so not 2008) for the following reasons.
- Remote desktop is possible on a separate session and not on the main console
- More detailed setting of access rights without shamanism with the registry
- No solitaire games
- (subjectively) The standard square style ala win 2000 seems more pleasant to me
- The ability to raise more than one site in IIS (in unlike XP), although the computer is home, but everything happened / happens
- I haven’t compared it to the end, but it’s subjectively simpler with the security policies in win 2003.
If you really analyze, then apart from the Terminal and IIS, everything else is just the personal preferences of the former administrator, who is used to 2003 Server

Sergey, 2012-01-20
@bondbig

The question of legality, I understand, is modestly lowered?

Sergey40a, 2012-01-20
@Sergey40a

I'm on 2008 R2. The main argument is the presence of Hyper-V (specifically the server version).
My workspace is divided into several virtual machines (IDE for development, server part, test machines, etc.), I use them as needed. If not for Hyper-V, I would have stayed on Win7. Still, for a workstation it is better to use it. And all the simplified settings can be opened to a normal view with a couple of changes in the registry.
Anticipating the question "why not VMWare/Parallels/..." - I prefer to use products that are natively integrated into the Microsoft ecosystem, unless there are very strong arguments against it.

bagyr, 2012-01-20
@bagyr

Had Windows 2003 Standard on a workstation at a previous job. If all sorts of MS-SQL and other IIS are not needed, then I don’t remember other obvious pluses on the move, but not all drivers got up.
If you don’t know why you need it, then most likely you don’t need it.

FeNUMe, 2012-01-20
@FeNUMe

if the choice is between XP and win2k3, then it’s worth it, if the choice is between win7 and win2k8, then I don’t see the point

Yakhnev, 2012-01-20
@Yakhnev

By myself, I’ll say that in Windows Server 2003 (I don’t know how the situation is with 2008) it’s unpleasant to work because of the long system response, when switching between programs and rendering, even if you enable the “optimize programs” option, and not background services, the situation improves a little better than nothing. It might suit some people, but I don't. Even working over RDP with Windows XP is much more fun.

Paul, 2012-01-20
@Paul

The server at home should be installed for the sake of full-fledged Terminal Services, perhaps. For several years I sat at home on Win2003, I didn’t notice any “long system responses” about which they are talking about above, although I, of course, switched the priority from Background services (which are by default in servers) to Programs. Of the unresolved problems, only one - GTA4 never got up, said "only client Windows and that's it." Maybe it was possible to take it away, but then I niasilil.

Nikolai Turnaviotov, 2012-01-22
@foxmuldercp

Regarding licensing - one of the technet subscription options, for it seems like 200 bucks, made it possible to legally use all MS products at home - server 2008, v7, sql, sharepoint, exchange, for study and development but not for production in the company, the second option was for development - licenses for ide. I am now planning to assemble a server with virtualization for administration - to play at home.
As for the server at home - most often it's the husband's RDP from work + console login, say, the wife, well, virtualization in 2008 - not everyone likes xen / vmware / esx (i) :)
who needs aero - it is turned on by checking / unchecking one Windows component - turns on the player, aero, desktop effects, etc ...