If you spend any amount of time in home-lab communities or pursuing forums, you’ll notice a weird propensity to dump on Windows. Real home labs run Linux. Proxmox, TrueNAS, ESXi replacements, Docker ...

It's hard to justify spending that much money on an OS when you can go the FOSS route with Linux distributions ...

Ask most anyone who runs Windows at home what edition of the operating system he or she is using, and odds are you’ll hear a fairly predictable roster of responses: Windows XP Home, XP Professional, ...