Then this shows how little you know ...

Especially about mining/productivity.

Either way, for a little mining system, that has little future progress, then sure, brag about Windows and 'all' it can do (which almost any Linux distribution can also do BTW). But grow and expand to a level where it is a 'farming' venture? Then you have another issue on your hands, and it is NOT 'just' licensing and getting the OS for 'free'. Especially when you consider that most Windows users who mine don't pay for the OS. Some do, most don't. The issues become far more complex and only a Linux based system (depending on linux Distribution of course) can become scalable in any form as opposed to the complexity of Windows.

We are nVidia based, and one of the larger GPU farms (theFARM) in the Southern Hemisphere. We will never route our systems to use Windows. Instead, we use an OS and rollout system that is stable, reliable, easy to upgrade, highly scalable, and yes free, though our Linux of choice is used mainly because we have the flexibility of compiling to our own benefit and optimizations (which is a complete nightmare in Windows), and we can roll it out under one seventh the time that Windows takes and 100% less cost than Windows.

So when one has to spend time, effort and money, then Windows is the LAST OS we look at as being a worthy OS to work with.

Argue all you want, the worlds largest, most productive and highly scalable entities ALL use a flavour of Linux in one way or another, especially the HPC, Grid and Mining systems. That tells you something about the limitations of Windows, even though very few features (like GUI OC for example) is available because too many are too afraid of ONE LINE COMMANDS in a console to do the exact same thing in Linux.

#crysx