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.
"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 solution is stable and reliable."
"I have seen a return on investment, especially considering the time taken to resolve the problem where we bought some support from Red Hat."
"The product is super easy to use."
"The containerized platform will help us use ROSA."
"The flexible and extensive system makes it easy to cluster, check redundancies, and perform data backups."
"It has improved our organization. It has standardized processes."
"The most valuable features are the specification and technical guides, they are most important the security."
"It is easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"It is easy to install and has good information."
"Great user interface and drivers are loaded into the solution by default."
"Windows 10 is easier for people to learn than other alternative solutions. Microsoft has been doing a very good job recently with updates and integrations, such as the collaboration with Ubuntu."
"It is a much faster solution if you are transitioning from a traditional Windows operating system."
"I am impressed with the tool's interface and navigation."
"I have found the product to be scalable."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux should provide more training because many people are not very familiar with Linux's user interface."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux's monitoring could be improved. I would like additional monitoring features, like a greater ability to monitor services and workloads running. Satellite can provide centralized monitoring of subscriptions and deployments. You can build a monitoring console, but there is no native monitoring."
"The operating system might not be able to handle big scientific problems which require a highly parallel system."
"It could be a bit more user-friendly. It could also be cheaper."
"The cost could be lower. Red Hat is considered a costly solution. It can be expensive if you want all the features in the license. A cheaper license would make Red Hat more accessible to a broader range of users."
"Servers: More applications for monitoring (e.g., nmon)."
"Its pricing is good and competitive."
"The only issue we have had with it is around the SELinux configuration because the way Ansible installs, it sticks the platform passwords in a flat file. We want that locked down more strongly than what is there currently with SELinux."
"Built into the solution is Windows Defender, which is in all the recent versions of the Windows operating system, however, we still end up buying an extra antivirus product in the market to ensure we are secure."
"Increasing the security would be beneficial."
"There is some room for improvement in the security of the solution."
"The license for Windows 10 is a little bit expensive."
"The licensing could always be less expensive."
"I've had some issues with a configuration that's given me trouble."
"One of my colleagues said Microsoft doesn't have a good record for the license. If the license gets lost, there isn't a dashboard where I can register my license and use it via the dashboard. We are looking for a dashboard like that."
"The solution could improve by having better security."
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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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