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Linux, Windows? Idk what to go with 😅 (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So this is my first attempt at a home server and it's basically an SSD boot drive and a 1 TB (I know it's small) HDD crammed into a gaming pc case and powered by a Ryzen 3 2200g... Hardly high tech, however... I've been told Linux is best so I foolishly tried installing Linux on a different SSD earlier... It didn't go well as I accidentally installed it to the 1TB HDD and wiped out 700GB of data 🤦‍♂️.

I persevered and tried getting homarr installed which wasbas successful as Jimmy Savilles child minding service so I gave up and stuck my windows SSD back in...

So wonderful people of Reddit, should I just stick with windows, is it worth another shot at Linux? Should I use Ubuntu server, or standard Ubuntu? I'd love to get your input to the pros and cons, although right now I'm seeing nothing but cons for Linux 😅

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I use windows as my server OS just as it's easy to integrate with my Windows machines, it runs a lot of dedicated servers for various games that most run on windows natively. I run Plex, a file server and I do run VMs and Linux Guests for web servers. The hardware is just an older Dell Poweredge with dual 12 core xeons and 128gb ram. It doesn't care at all about the loads I put on it.