They also can get away with a lot of terrible behavior simply by being attractive.

You cannot reason that life shouldn’t have evolved because any argument you can make is thanks to the fact that it evolved.

It’s one of those things where “work hard” isn’t the wrong answer. Only hard work forces your body to build muscle.

And while you can use anything for servers, even Microsoft refuses to use Windows Server for their own servers and uses Linux based OS, so go figure.

What else is there, your favorite flavor of BSD? Unless someone else already ported everything necessary, it will be a DIY project and you will be the one telling people about it.

There aren’t that many options that just work out of the box other than Linux, it’s most popular, and practically just works for anything you can imagine self hosting, of course people will be talking about it almost exclusively, because using something else is a pointless duplication of effort for what purpose exactly?