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 most valuable feature of this solution is how easy it is to use."
"The solution’s security feature is the most valuable feature for my company."
"I like most of the features. I like its stability. I like its views. It provides a very stable environment."
"Everything is just stable and works well."
"It has improved our organization's management and efficiency."
"Its scalability and ease of setup and configuration are most valuable. When we have a hardware failure, we just save the configuration files, and in about half an hour, we have another server running with the same configuration. It is really easy to replace servers. This is the best feature."
"The knowledge base they offer has proven to be quite efficient and we haven't encountered any significant challenges."
"From a security perspective, the most valuable feature is SELinux. SELinux provides good security. It's doing a good job of protecting my real estate."
"The operating system itself is good."
"I like the changes made to the user interface compared to the previous version of Windows such as Windows eight and Windows nine."
"The technical support is fantastic."
"Windows 10 has a convenient user interface."
"Windows installation is straightforward. It only took about 30 minutes."
"Windows 10 is a user-friendly product."
"Windows 10 is easy to use and has good performance."
"I like that it's easy to use, and it seems to be more robust than Windows 7."
"I am not happy with the tool's support. It is difficult to find knowledgeable people. It's hard to troubleshoot."
"It would be very good if we can easily migrate from CentOS to Red Hat. We are about to move from CentOS to Red Hat. It would be great if they can give us a free version. Otherwise, we need to purchase licenses, which are quite expensive."
"In the past and with older versions, you couldn't expand the root file system without rebooting the server or restarting the operating system. That is something that they have actually corrected now, which is great. They corrected that issue somewhere around RHEL 7."
"Red Hat Insights are instrumental in identifying vulnerabilities. I am still learning, but my understanding is that it is not directly connected to your environment to deploy a patch or vulnerability fix. It is going to give a YAML playbook to do that. It does not actually execute it."
"From a cloud perspective, I'm looking for more integrations with native cloud services. For example, the ability to use native Azure Key Vault instead of Ansible Key Vault or Red Hat Key Vault."
"The solution could provide more APIs and GUI interfaces."
"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."
"I prefer a product that offers everything in a yearly subscription, like VMware, and I think RHEL should consider offering it as well."
"Windows 10 should have less frequent updates."
"In general, most of the time, the updates in Windows 10 bring problems instead of solving them, making it an area requiring improvements."
"The updates are not user-friendly."
"The solution could be more secure and user-friendly."
"Microsoft could improve the support for installing programs."
"I would like to see the price reduced."
"It could be more secure. We just want them to focus on security."
"Windows 10 could be improved with faster upgrades. I know they already made changes to the next version, so maybe I have to upgrade first and then check whatever I think was missing. Apart from that, I haven't really had any issues."
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 179 reviews while Windows 10 is ranked 7th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 259 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, Oracle Linux and CentOS, 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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