This is the way to go. If anyone has suggestions on one, I would love to see them. Most only have 1 nic. A lot of the ones with 2 have a bunch of unnecessary extra IO and cost alot.

Close off the vent in the server room and open the door from the server room and your house. Free heating

You could use windows fine I am sure. It is just the majority of us have other things we like to run and there all developed for Linux or Docker. The other reason people go away from Windows is it uses more RAM and CPU, you are doing so little that it isn’t really that big of an issue for you. If you decide to add anything else or run docker, you will probably see why the majority go with Linux, because you will run into issues.

Doesn’t look active anymore, you should peel that sticker off

Is that a fan and vent hood coming out of the top?

Tell that gnome to start keeping better track of those cables

I tried it and once I got to the point where I needed documentation, there wasn’t any so I went away from it.