We performed a comparison between Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows 10 based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Windows 10 wins out in this comparison. The main difference between the two solutions is that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is not user friendly, while reviewers say that Windows 10 is. Windows users are also happier with its pricing.
"The solution’s security feature is the most valuable feature for my company."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux's most valuable attribute is its stability."
"Automation is the most valuable feature. I don't like having to solve a problem more than once. If I can just whip up some code to take care of deploying something, responding to something, etc., then that is what I prefer. It is a lot easier out-of-the-box to do than it is with Windows. With Windows, there is always the process of bootstrapping into being able to have the automation framework available, then making the automation framework work."
"The most valuable feature of RHEL is the Ansible Automation Platform, closely followed by Satellite."
"This is a very robust product that doesn't require a lot of handling. It just works."
"One of the most important features is the package manager. It provides the ability to very easily roll back transactions when something has gone wrong. It is an easy-to-use tool that helps me in situations where something unexpected has happened. I found that this was one of the solution's major advantages over other distributions."
"Copious documentation is probably the best feature of the solution."
"Technical support is excellent."
"Windows 10 is stable and scalable."
"The performance is good."
"It is compatible with most of the applications I use like Office."
"Microsoft technology is very simple and user friendly."
"The GUI has been enhanced and it supports the 365 suite."
"I have found that the solution is easy to use, intuitive, and has a good user interface."
"Windows 10 is ubiquitous, so everyone knows how to use it."
"I like the performance of the solution and its user-friendliness."
"Red Hat can improve its operating system by making it better from the quality assurance perspective. Users do find bugs, which they, of course, shouldn't encounter. A better QA would probably make the job a lot better. It would make the product a lot more stable than it's today."
"I want RHEL to stick to the open-source routes. As a company, we experience challenges in managing the budget."
"Network virtualization resources could be better. When you have any kind of trouble with network virtualization, such as with OVS, which is like a switch in a virtual environment, it takes many hours to find what is happening. Other vendors, such as VMware, and even other Linux implementations for network virtualization have better resources. It is much easier to escalate, and there is better documentation."
"I agree that, when first downloading it, it makes sense that I have to provide my information. But when I want to update, it shouldn't be necessary. Sometimes, I'm just doing a proof of concept and once I'm finished, the server is gone... If Red Hat would remove that requirement, that would be great."
"The GUI has room for improvement. It needs to be managed by many administrators. It has basic command lines. They could improve it with better automation. We'd like to be able to create a script, and then have the ability to deploy it where we don't need to write everything manually. That part can be useful for automating."
"The product should be made more accessible to someone who isn't experienced with Linux."
"The solution could provide more APIs and GUI interfaces."
"Could include additional security fefatures."
"The stability could be improved."
"It could have faster updates."
"The updates are excessively long and take an entire hour during startup, which is ridiculous."
"When there are updates, the system should automatically identify and remove any unnecessary previous features that are no longer needed, ensuring that they don't take up space on the storage media during this period."
"The updates are not user-friendly."
"Windows 10 wasn't a very stable solution."
"The solution could improve by providing web applications and have Windows 10 on Azure as a virtual machine."
"If Microsoft could find a way to better manage updates and patches, that could be more useful for end users, which would be good."
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 167 reviews while Windows 10 is ranked 7th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 255 reviews. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is rated 8.8, while Windows 10 is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) writes "Highly stable, good knowledge base, and reasonable price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows 10 writes "User-friendly, easy to setup and manage domain ". Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Windows Server, Ubuntu Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, CentOS and Oracle Linux, whereas Windows 10 is most compared with Windows Server, Ubuntu Linux, Oracle Solaris, openSUSE Leap and Rocky Linux. See our Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) vs. Windows 10 report.
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