Exactly. And Vmware's calculus is that as long as it has a dozen gigantic clients (governments, huge enterprises) that it can charge whatever it wants, then the small fish aren't worth it.

You know what you sound like? Exactly the type of victim that Broadcom build most of their business model on.

Have you met young people that intentionally became Windows admins? Or the windows admins (the legitimate ones) you can hire out of, say, India? My guess is with your history, you probably have not.

No argument from me that you get dumb Unix admins as well.

I had a very important word in there: "most". You may want to think about the implication of that word for a singular case. You clearly need to improve your reading comprehension skills.

The cost for all the negative side-effects is already larger than any potential benefits can ever be.

Probably because people are stupid and inflexible. Well. Looks like Broadcom knows the idiots they are exploiting very well.

And yet, you could have, at really small costs, made sure all your infrastructure also runs on Proxmox. May even have saved you money in the process because things would have done cleaner and that always pays off. An ounce of preparation ...

Exactly. A small bit of foresight and preparation saves you a mountain of effort and cost later.

To be fair, most people working as Windows sysadmins would not have that job if they were smart and capable.

Indeed. Obviously MS does not want that question asked because the answer to it is pretty obvious: Windows adds cost and problems.

Funny how that goes, isn't it? The thing is propaganda is a lie. It targets emotions (here the feeling of being unsafe) and tries to amplify them and then bind them to something the propaganda-maker sells. Works the same for tooth-paste, cameras or Fascism: The aim is to bypass the rational assessment of things. And, sadly, it works on a _lot_ of people because generally speaking people cannot fact-check for shit in the first place and this emotional approach bypasses what small skills they may have in that area nicely. It also means that anybody using this approach is not a good person because things built on lies never work out.

Nope. What a disingenuous manipulation attempt to make this an emotional question. I have no feelings towards LLMs, but I can recognize a bad tool when I see one. There are tons of those out there, but usually they do not get pushed this hard and usually there are not so many stupid people that get on board with the hype. Hence this thing is dangerous.

Blender is not a highly experimental tool with mostly unknown characteristics. That is where the "not very smart" part comes in.

Indeed. If you install this monstrosity, you may not even be able to do a clean de-install.

You just directly contradicted yourself there ...