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

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.