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 security of the OS is the most valuable feature."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux's most valuable feature is its stability."
"Errata is the most valuable feature, which is supported by Red Hat."
"We also use Ansible. Ansible is a wonderful tool for automation. We use it to automate our patching. We use Ansible to get playbooks to take care of anything that's manual."
"The solution's stability is great, and patching it with Ansible is very easy."
"The knowledge base they offer has proven to be quite efficient and we haven't encountered any significant challenges."
"The solution’s security feature is the most valuable feature for my company."
"The most valuable features are the specification and technical guides, they are most important the security."
"I have found all the features to be valuable. I like the compatibility of Windows with other products, I can add applications. The general compatibility of Microsoft is good, I know that I can use all the Microsoft products."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"It's very straightforward. There is virtually no learning curve at all."
"It is user-friendly, and it supports many applications. I am working as an enterprise lead, so I have different client applications, and they are mostly compatible with Windows. The graphical interface of Windows 10 is better than Windows 8."
"The performance is good."
"If users don't want to worry about compatibility with any Windows application, I think that Windows is a good solution."
"Windows 10 is user-friendly and very easy to get a compatible driver for the hardware."
"It is stable, scalable, and secure. It is also easy to install."
"Some of the repositories and some of the DNS versions are very old. I just deployed something using Ruby and the DNS stable repository was sufficiently old that the Ruby project I was using didn't work."
"It is mostly better than other solutions. However, it is sometimes difficult for disaster recovery, so we have to plan accordingly."
"The licensing model is kind of a mess."
"The product should be made available on Oracle Cloud."
"The price has room for improvement."
"The biggest thing that is crushing RHEL is documentation. Their documentation is haphazard at best. The man pages that you can use locally are pretty good, they've been fleshed out pretty well, but the documentation from Red Hat itself really needs somebody to go through it and review it."
"The package compatibility between different releases is a little confusing sometimes."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"There are times I have slow performance on my laptop using Windows 10 but I am not sure if it is the laptop hardware or the solution."
"We'd always be happier if the enterprise version was a little bit lower in price."
"In an upcoming release, I would like the Windows files themselves to be able to be adjusted in a way they are not as easy to open or access. There are times when you can make a simple mistake in a Windows file and the whole operating system could become corrupted, the files should be more secure."
"I would prefer it if the solution was cheaper."
"It could have faster updates."
"Stability can be an issue. I have to restart it every two days. And the boot time is quite long."
"It would be great if they could make the systems boot faster but I think it is more of a function of the PC than the solutions."
"When it comes to the Home Edition, there is usually just a license."
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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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