I tried running PiHole on a Windows box using Docker Desktop. It worked for a bit but it stopped working at some point... and I didn't bother fixing. It had bee

I tried running PiHole on a Windows box using Docker Desktop. It worked for a bit but it stopped working at some point... and I didn't bother fixing. It had been working fine for so long on my RPi. You can buy fanless celeron mini-computers from Aliexpress for $100-$150. You can also get i5/i7 if you are willing to pay a lot more. Most of them come with pirated Windows (some sellers even say that they'll send it with Ubuntu pre-installed) but you can simply remove it and install Ubuntu Server and then install PiHole, Home Assistant or whatever you want.