[bluelightning2k]

It's funny - I'm listening to "The Founders" audiobook and right now they're telling the story of Elon Musk at PayPal wanting to rewrite for Windows server because Linux was too hard.

Weird to think that his next company's compute platform is this.

[WendyTheWillow]

Linux was a lot harder back then.

[cactusplant7374]

Harder for who? Elon certainly didn't have the technical chops to work with it.

[WendyTheWillow]

Harder for everyone, including his staff, who were asking him to move to Windows…

[huggingmouth]

He should have hired staff that is competent with the tech stack used at his company.

Unforced rewrites are usually always a bad idea.

[WendyTheWillow]

Oh that simple, huh? Too bad you weren’t around in the late 90s to explain this to him, and to help him find the extremely rare group of folks familiar with Linux…

[bluelightning2k]

Actually he was the other way around. He strongly pushing windows and the CTO and engineers from Confonity strongly wanted Linux

[WendyTheWillow]

“Wanting to rewrite for windows” is what you said; was that not accurate?

The key thing here however is that Elon didn’t want whatever he asked for in a vacuum, despite what the book says. Surely this was his engineer’s preference.