We performed a comparison between CentOS and Windows 10 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Operating Systems (OS) for Business solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The user access level is most valuable. When you do administration with CentOS, the number of customizations that you can do for each user is higher than other solutions. It is very customizable."
"Very robust and easy to work with."
"It's less expensive than Red Hat."
"The most valuable feature of CentOS is that it is easy to use."
"It's a good and stable system. It provides everything you need for web servers and database servers."
"The solution is open source."
"The product is based on Red Hat and very stable."
"The open architecture is useful for us. That's why we're using CentOS."
"I like how Windows 10 is quite stable."
"It is familiar and mature and runs the most popular productivity tools."
"It is easy to use."
"The product is pretty stable."
"The solution is scalable. If an organization needs to expand it out, they shouldn't run into issues doing so."
"I like that Windows 10 is easy to use."
"It is compatible with most of the applications I use like Office."
"The solution has good performance and has a good interface."
"The performance could stand improvement."
"When comparing the GUI of CentOS to Microsoft Windows or Mac, it could improve."
"The GUI interface could always be better."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
"Previous versions were unstable."
"The price of CentOS could improve."
"The solution could improve by making the management tools better for the DevOps teams. For example, WebEX and Webstacks."
"Integration with Open Stack could be improved."
"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."
"Windows 10 could be more compatible with Linux-based programs. We would prefer to use Linux, but we need human support. Our leaders decided to go that way. They prefer to pay more for Microsoft because they believe it offers a better value."
"Windows needs to improve the memory process—memory management. Sometimes, it consumes too much."
"It's an expensive solution."
"In general, most of the time, the updates in Windows 10 bring problems instead of solving them, making it an area requiring improvements."
"They need better upgrading. It is not updating for me at all."
"The solution could improve by being more secure and having a better user interface."
"The search feature could be improved."
CentOS is ranked 5th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 63 reviews while Windows 10 is ranked 7th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 259 reviews. CentOS is rated 8.2, while Windows 10 is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CentOS writes "Allows you to securely store data, and command prompts make it simple to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows 10 writes "User-friendly, easy to setup and manage domain ". CentOS is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows Server and Rocky Linux, whereas Windows 10 is most compared with Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu Linux, Oracle Solaris and Google Chrome Enterprise. See our CentOS vs. Windows 10 report.
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