Re:A case for moving away from the cloud and embracing local...
by RajT88 on Monday December 04, 2023 @12:15PM
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A few reasons, in order of my priorities:
- Win10 / 11 seem to be more and more crabby about talking to SMB shares, so I reasoned I needed to be able to exert more control over the file server. I can't tell you for my old nas how many times after a reboot I found myself running "net start mrxsmb10".
- Much of my professional life has been on the Windows stack, so when things aren't working right, I can troubleshoot it a lot more efficiently. Think: Sysinternals tools.
- I get free windows licenses through my MSDN through work, so it didn't cost me anything.
- It's nice to have an RDP host I can use to have some separation from my work stuff.
- I had some existing software licenses on stuff that only runs on windows: PlayOn, Twonky, TVersity. It turns out these older versions of PlayOn and TVersity are mostly useless these days.
- Win10 / 11 seem to be more and more crabby about talking to SMB shares, so I reasoned I needed to be able to exert more control over the file server. I can't tell you for my old nas how many times after a reboot I found myself running "net start mrxsmb10".
- Much of my professional life has been on the Windows stack, so when things aren't working right, I can troubleshoot it a lot more efficiently. Think: Sysinternals tools.
- I get free windows licenses through my MSDN through work, so it didn't cost me anything.
- It's nice to have an RDP host I can use to have some separation from my work stuff.
- I had some existing software licenses on stuff that only runs on windows: PlayOn, Twonky, TVersity. It turns out these older versions of PlayOn and TVersity are mostly useless these days.