[Shiunbird]

Slackware was one of the distros I was considering moving to before I decided to go to BSD.

I've never tried running MySQL on a Windows Server. Why would you do that?
The only use case I can see would be really by big corp policy you are stuck on Windows.

Personally, I've been using MariaDB for a few years, but it was a mindless move. I had to reinstall a machine, MariaDB was the new thing, I installed it and stayed at it.

If it works, then why change?
14 years of 24/7 uptime sounds truly awesome.