What is better for the workstation?

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    windows xp if it is the PRO version, you can enter into the domain as a workstation. And here win serv2003 is a full-fledged server - can you of course use it for the user's work just for what? pay for a more expensive license, etc.

    • 1. You do not have to pay, in Russia the software is free :) 2. There is a popular belief that the server axis is more productive, more reliable, more flexible, as well as the workstation! So I wanted to find out from those who made comparisons for use as a workstation (not a game station) - rejie
    • 1. also an option :) 2. As an option, you can install windows xp corporate editions. Of course, you can make workstations from a 2003 server, but this isn’t for FH. - Alexey Kirilenko
    • Actually, I worked on W2K3 in station mode and quite a lot on XP. So based on personal experience, I would say that it is more comfortable to work on the server. However, there were a couple of (really rare) applications. which, due to incompatibility with the server axis, could not work (specially built-in software limitations) - I had to use XP. The rest is quite enough. It was necessary to reinstall only 1 time in several years - the HDD drive died. In the current reality, I agree that the richness of the functionality of this OS is not necessary for the average user - Windows 7 wins in this regard. - Daemon-5

    Comrade, if you install ws2003, then by default extra services are running there (I won’t list them yourself). But a clean winXP, brought to a normal state with new clothes, will give you and office plankton confidence in the work.

      for a workstation, you should use what is intended for it according to its functionality. In any server version it is full of all sorts of services / daemons that an ordinary office worker doesn’t need at all, and at the same time will take up memory. or W7Unlim / Corporate. Even in the 32-bit variation. I do not know yet, with rare exceptions, why an office employee, with his Word and Excel, has more than 1 hectare of operatives ...

        win serv2003 is a full server

        This is just one name, not a server. Windows is the user OS.

        • It seems to me that you will not bring a single argument in defense of your theory. - Dex
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          Do you need? Practice does not show you anything? - tehnikpc
        • Just the same practice shows that such statements are baseless. For: 1. If you do everything right, the stability of the server does not take 2. The perception of the server is different for everyone. If the server for you is more services, ala ftp, http ... this one. But if you have several forests and domains with N Windows computers, this is a completely different conversation3. I’m more than sure that you haven’t seen the functionality of Windows at all, without using a graphical shell, which, by the way, doesn’t often cause problems4. Everything has its own goals and objectives, and baseless statements lead to holivar - Dex
        • Directly answering your question, my practice shows that with the minimum of required gestures you “pick up” what you need, sap with utilities up to the necessary condition, since there are a lot of settings that the registry keeps and the server is ready. All out of the box: domain, users, computers, their settings, certification, virtualization, and much more. Customization answers are in the same place, always accessible and simple. The user OS is MAC OS X. Even though Unix is ​​in the core, there is little functionality for maintaining a fleet of machines and stability is not enough. - Dex
        • “If you do everything right, you don’t have to take stability on the server” How many times does it reboot in a week? "But if you have several forests and domains with N Windows computers," I will not have any Windows computers. And yet, what about the security in Windows? She's not there just. - tehnikpc