Just tried installing the server variant on a dell precision.

The installer let me connect to my WiFi, but then spun indefinitely trying to get an ipv4 address.

If I skip connecting to WiFi, and just let the installer do its thing, I get no network on the fresh install either (all the tutorials say to use nmcli, which I don't have).

I might have experienced the same. It spun and spun after connecting to the WiFi on an Intel NUC 13.