Windows server 2025 as desktop ! Canary (24H2) update --very good

Hi folks
If you can get a trial version of Windows server 2025 or a copy licensed from your workspace and do a few mods to make it behave and run as a Desktop OS - it blows away most standard editions of W11 and gives the best features of both W10 and W11 in it -- I've got it running on a lowly Celeron CPU on a mega cheap mini PC also running a Linux VM with a full KDE GUI on Hyper-V -- the only issue no sound on Linux - that's not a Windows issue - the issue here is that modern Linux distros run essentially Wayland rather than X11 as their video server which is currently incompatable with Windows RDP.

Some older ones such as Debian are still OK while latest developments are on a sort of Wayland to X11 bridge to get over this problem -- it will be a while though. Currently Freerdp / xrdp only work on X11 systems.

Other than that the system is running far beyond expectations on what is even by MiniPC standards an old one (cost at the time €190 !!!) .



The only Windows program that I can't install on the server is Macrium (needs a server license -- far too expensive for a home user !!!) - but I can just boot up another Windows 11 system and back the disk up or boot up a VM, attach the Windows server disk as a physical disk and again do the backup.

Plus being a server 99.999% of stupid Windows network problems magically disappear -- why can't they get the bods who maintain Windows server products do Windows Networking on the non server systems --chances are most of Windows networking problems would vanish. !!!

Cheers
jimbo

I used to use a server converted to a workstation, but after I made w11 lite without a program, without defender, without edge, I'm using it more, the performance is great.