The original post: /r/homelab by /u/Evil-Toaster on 2024-07-27 03:36:11.

Original Title: can anyone help a long-term Linux engineer begin to support Windows help explain some home lab setup problems, please? involves bare metal systems and system drivers. will happily take downvotes for advice

sorry if I’m not asking in the right place. I’m trying to figure out what sort of bare metal system I can set up to be my own little “prod” server for educational purposes. I was using an intel nuc i put redhat bc it is what I use to support. had a job change and am being put deep into Windows Server/PowerShell. tried to convert the system to a Windows server… 2022… I think can not remember the exact version. found none of the drivers for it were supported. looking for why I can just install the thing and pay for it to work and what hardware I can force myself to use as a server to get better at it. again if you have a better sub to ask please point me to it and ill go away

system specifics for the system that was a bare-bones I made.

lscpu | grep ‘Model name|Socket(s)|Core(s) per socket|Thread(s) per core’

Model name: 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1360P

BIOS Model name: 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1360P To Be Filled By O.E.M. CPU @ 4.3GHz

Thread(s) per core: 2

Core(s) per socket: 12

Socket(s): 1

free -h | grep ‘Mem:’

Mem: 62Gi 5.5Gi 34Gi 1.1Gi 24Gi 56Gi

lspci | grep -i ‘vga|3d’

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 04)

df -h --total | grep ‘total’

total 7.3T 2.1T 4.9T 31% -

edit: note I am talking about migrating to a windows server not like 10 or 11