JWBananas

Try FancyZones

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzones

Client or server?

The client should be available out of the box. The server should be available as a feature that you can toggle on.

Inb4 systemd-smbd

Sounds like a great use case.

I'm assuming your nearline drives speak SAS? Are you doing redundant controllers on the backplane for multipathing and for fault tolerance? I'm not sure if bcachefs specifically supports it (or if that would happen at a different layer) but distros in general should support it.

TCO gets split into CAPEX and OPEX, so you come out ahead on the initial purchase even though it uses more power in the long run, which surely looks better to the business.

Winning is the most honorable thing a Klingon can do.

I would like to point out that the or in this comment is not necessarily an exclusive or.

Dining out isn't a substitute for therapy.

Surely they'll butterfly effect into different numbers after you buy the ticket?

Both, at the same time. It's hard to explain.

I can see that being the case for the Desktop variant. For the Server variant you get vim and tmux out of the box.

Lately, jq

What distros don't include tmux and vim? Ubuntu has had them for at least a decade.