I self hosted windows for many years, mostly because that is what I used at work. I liked it because it hid some of the low level details and worked most of the time.

The thing that finally made me switch was the exorbitant cost of licenses and the need to run services on older hardware.

DM me if you want some keys. I have a few copies of win10 and winIOT laying around that I’m not going to use.

you are correct @iamthetot.

take it out. I had more than one ballon on me when I left them in.

there are lots of reasons it can happen,but since this was in a closet I didn’t notice it and I suppose could’ve been a fire hazard eventually.

some laptops might have reduced performance in this configuration though.