Why is Linux preferred for administration and why? Why do many people prefer it?

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Many people choose Linux, be it Debian, Ubuntu, etc., because they are better for administration and server management. Why is Linux better than Windows and why do many people choose it?

Answer 1

Most likely, under such a question, the already well-known srach will begin. And a couple of people will still reproach you for having 30-50-70 percent of servers under FreeBSD
My humble opinion

• Free
  Yes, now someone will say that Red Hat is not cheaper, and sometimes more expensive than Windows, but most Linux distributions are free
  
• Openness
  This fact is not appreciated exactly until the moment when you have to do something that is not chewed on the Internet. Sooner or later, the developer comes to the point where he crawls into the source code with a deep soulful question "how is this %&$ supposed to work?". For some points are either not documented correctly, or not completely, or there is an annoying error in the code that no one noticed before, well, or noticed, but did not throw a bug report / commit with a fix to the developer.
  In a Windows environment, especially if it is the system itself and not application software, this bug can result in weeks or months of suffering. There is only reverse engineering if the support ignores you.
  
• Documentation
  Did the command not work as expected? man commandname
  Did not help? Take a look at the developer's site, there is usually so much extensive wiki/documentation that you will get carried away reading.
  Is the program fresh and the documentation not exhaustive yet? Take a look at the repository, search the source code for the place you want to call parametrically - most likely there you will see a comment from the developer who wrote this code, at the same time you will get a couple more undocumented features.
  In the end, if you suddenly become interested in why it was done this way and not otherwise - take a look at the project's bugzilla - most likely you will find a discussion of this piece of code by searching.
  
• Flexibility
  Plug your driver directly into the kernel? Easy (if you already learn how to write drivers, then introducing it into the kernel will not be any particular problem)
  
• The ubiquity
  of Che is already there server. Routers, phones, embedded solutions - everywhere on the sidelines, with rare exceptions, the Linux kernel and familiar packages and commands are spinning. A sort of standardization.
  
• The IKEA effect
  You don't suspect it yourself, but when you assemble this damn constructor brick by brick, make each screw spin (with a probability tending to 100%) as you need, you will love this system.

Again, this is my humble personal opinion.
Undoubtedly, servers on Windows are fast, stable, working 24/7/365 for years. But it just so happened.

Answer 2

Convenience for the administrator.
Linux is very powerful out of the box. Parse a large log, collect statistics and send it to email - you can do it in one line. Add one more line - and you have a periodically performed task.
A sequence of commands is easy to write into a batch file and scale up to any number of servers.
Windows has only recently begun to come to this - Powershell and all that. But it still leads to unnecessary movements. Climb to launch some forms, poke some checkboxes - raise and configure the domain server, and all that ... You can run a
Linux server for some tasks - you can host for a penny. Windows is more difficult.

Answer 3

Why is Linux preferred for administration and why?

Who told you this?
Linux is not better or worse, it's just different.

Why do many people prefer it?

Why do some businesses, many businesses choose to buy excavators instead of buses? The answer is simple - it is much more convenient to dig trenches with an excavator than with a bus.
For the same reason, Linux is preferred.

Answer 4

Let's chill, brother?
Linux is no better and no worse than Windows - it's just different things. Sports car and KAMAZ - both cars, just one was built to carry goods - and the second - to carry heifers :)

Answer 5

In short:
Businesses choose Linux because the total cost of ownership is lower.
This is made up of the cost of a license, the salary of employees with the required qualifications, the necessary hardware, and the risks of downtime. And why is it a circle cheaper there will be a hundred answers.

Answer 6

There are many reasons, some of them were named here. I will add:

1. Openness. There is more trust in an open source system.
   
2. Diversity. There are many Linux distributions to choose from. To perform tasks - you can choose from many tools (mail servers - about five).
   
3. Compatibility with other types of Unix. You can move from Linux to FreeBSD, Solaris, and more.
   
4. Admin Qualifications. The entry threshold for Linux is significantly higher than for Windows. Therefore, there is less risk of running into a crooked bullshit.
   
5. Better documentation. And if the documentation is not enough - you can see the source.
   
6. Less viruses.
   
7. Less need for resources. However, on a heavy load - the task requires resources, and not the system itself.
   

Answer 7

What an incorrect question.
Administer something. From what computer you will do it - violet. Just like violet what OS will be there. It's more about convenience and personal preference. It may not even be a computer, but a tablet or even a phone.
But what OS will be on the server that you administer - this is hardly something that you can choose. What slipped, then you will administer. Even if they give you a choice, it will often be determined by the limitations of the tool that you will install on this server. For example, you are unlikely to raise Active Directory on Linux, just as in the old days the 1C server on Linux simply did not exist. Network gateways, web servers, database servers, hypervisors will probably run on Linux.
Yes, there is such a point that due to the better integration of some things, Linux is more convenient to administer from Linux, and Windows from Windows. But these are not always critical moments.
So the question is more worth - what are you going to administer. And in this regard, I would prefer Linux - it is a much more flexible system, with the richest possibilities for automating everything and everything, with interesting tasks, after a long period of administration in it you will receive an invaluable store of knowledge and understanding in various fields.

Answer 8

They laughed a little. The cost of ownership for a company of any size where most people for windows are lower. If the company is large and most of its services are Internet, then yes it is cheaper. Otherwise, there are more cons and a noisy, quarrelsome community. Ps any normal admin should know both and even a few poppies.

Answer 9

A stupid argument about Black or White, Man or Woman, iPhone or Android.
The tool is selected according to tasks, costs (free or paid), convenience of work, administration capabilities (try to find a Linux teacher in the village for a rural school) and a lot of other things.

Answer 10

The quality of work, and that says it all, this concept can mean almost everything, it's fast action, and security, and maintenance, and the like, Windows will not provide the quality of network storage as Linux (network storage is just an example), Linux both faster and more reliable, my servers on Linux work without "b", when it was made a long time ago and they safely forgot about it, because it does not break from the word at all, Windows will not provide this in many ways, as due to the wildly outdated ntfs and because of security, which is also marking time, well, it’s all a long time to describe if we consider a purely desktop - windows is also at the bottom, the same computer with Windows and Linux starts up completely differently, and the quality of work, Windows, compared to Linux, is a snail.

Answer 11

Automation, speed of administration