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Running Windows Server Drivers on Regular Windows

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Just a minute ago, I asked /r/HomeServer if it was possible to run Windows Server 2012 R2 drivers on Windows 8.1. Instead of a helpful answer, I got demands that I need to switch over to Windows 10 and that I was being stupid. After getting super pissed, I decided to test it myself. So I shut down my PC and removed my Titan Xp to put in my old but trusty Quadro RTX 4000, used Display Driver Uninstaller to get rid of any remnants of the old Nvidia Titan driver, then opened the Server 2012 R2 drivers and see if it would let me use them.

And lo and behold, it did! Worked perfectly fine. No "hacky workarounds" needed. So, in summary, at very least on the Turing architecture and very probably lower, Windows Server drivers can be used in place of regular drivers on regular Windows.

And as for /r/HomeServer, regardless of how this experiment would have turned out, fuck off for being unhelpful and illiterate, even when I posted a huge list of reasons why Windows 10 was not adequate, and making me waste an hour of my life to manually get an answer that you guys could have easily given. I don't need further advertisements for Microsoft's shitty OS. Thanks.

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Gauche said:
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r/buildapc is full of these. God forbid someone wants to have "old tech" on their PC like Blue-ray players or wants to use all of their fan slots on their case. If someone is adding a CD/DVD player in this day in age there is likely a reason for it and they don't want to hear about your opinions on CDs being obsolete.
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It's true. The amount of people I've had to fight off in the YouTube comments about the incredible usefulness of 5 1/4" bays alone is absurd.
 
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buying a $20 DVD writer and shoving it in a spare bay 7 years ago is an egregious personal attack to half of the userbase on most tech forums in 2020
it's always better to just spare yourself the heat and tell them you fucked their sister or something instead
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I mean that guy is not wrong, I'd rather tell those people that I fucked not just their sister but their mom also before asking them a simple question and getting flamed for no reason.
 
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