Windows Server
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
2warn against
Dec 6, 2025first mention
Oct 26, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“when devs write for Windows Server”
“All of the following products and services are fantastic in 2026:”
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“I use Windows Server in Desktop mode, just to escape the ads and widgets and rubbish that the consumer version insists on displaying.”
Caveats and dissent
“people opt for Windows Server or SQL Server or Oracle DB, or other software like that - if you have a good reason to use them, sure, go ahead, but that shouldn’t be your default”
“I can't get a normal file copy to go faster than around 1.5GB/s”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
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Data: windows-server.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“when devs write for Windows Server”
“I fully switched to Windows Server to be able to check the same issues as the customers had”
“All of the following products and services are fantastic in 2026:”
“I use Windows Server in Desktop mode, just to escape the ads and widgets and rubbish that the consumer version insists on displaying.”
“people opt for Windows Server or SQL Server or Oracle DB, or other software like that - if you have a good reason to use them, sure, go ahead, but that shouldn’t be your default”
“I can't get a normal file copy to go faster than around 1.5GB/s”