Which OS to install?

[Thimblewad]

Depending on the motherboard chipset you may or may not have windows 7 agp gart drivers.

I don't think I could actually install Windows 7. Don't need GPU drivers, but anyways I have experienced Windows 7 on 1 GB of RAM and I'm not going there, hahahah.

 

[theFOoL]

Yeah but 2GB it 1.25 would work LoL but Xp is fine. I have it installed on my pc just for fun

 

[Atomic77]

Oh my gosh that thing is pretty outdated I doubt you could do much with it these days.

 

[theFOoL]

Oh my gosh that thing is pretty outdated I doubt you could do much with it these days.

At least the updates site works and you can install Firefox (the latest version I mind you) and just browse the web and install OpenOffice

 

[Thimblewad]

Oh my gosh that thing is pretty outdated I doubt you could do much with it these days.

Well, the PC is actually working great with those specs.

At least the updates site works and you can install Firefox (the latest version I mind you) and just browse the web and install OpenOffice

The updates site works, yeah, but I had to install Firefox 12.something because all later versions need SSE2 to function and the CPU itself doesn't support that.

 

[theFOoL]

Mine does i3 4150 and yes I have the latest version of FireFox but I have the last versions of chrome and opera installed as Well although Opera Tends to crash but FireFox and Chrome Version 49 still crashes a Tab time-to-time

 

[bayley]

I think Linux is just that little bit better than Windows, but not by much. Depends what you're using it for really, as Linux is often said to be the preferred option for content management systems. If I were you, I'd read this comparison of the two before deciding

 

[slozomby]

I think Linux is just that little bit better than Windows, but not by much. Depends what you're using it for really, as Linux is often said to be the preferred option for content management systems. If I were you, I'd read this comparison of the two before deciding

from a server perspective. there is very little that runs on Linux that doesn't have a decent port for windows. Wamp vs Lamp for 99% of the websites out there would make 0 difference. Security on both depends on the administrators skills and basic maintenance. if either of those is lacking its not hard to get compromised. performance is mostly going to be code optimization, the minor overhead of a windows core installation vs a minimal installation is not really relevant until you start scaling horizontally, but bad code runs like crap on both platforms. content management ( git, cvs,...) work fine on either platform. automation controls work on both platforms ( puppet/chef) . there are a more NoSQL options for Linux than there are for windows.

the main reason to pick Linux over Windows for a server is licensing. when you're deploying 50 servers to run a site the money saved using Linux is not insignificant. On the other hand there are things in windows server such as Active Directory ( which samba is getting better at) and DFS and SCOM that just aren't up to snuff on Linux machines for enterprise purposes.

for a home installation windows server is generally way out of most people's price range and needs. and the $100 for a windows 7/10 license is probably better spent on beer. you'll want that beer when installing all the prerec's for samba 4.5

 

[Atomic77]

What do I know? Ive always gone with Windows. I never really had to install a OS before. I never built a computer either.

 

[theFOoL]

Once Linux has Gaming more i'll switch. Though i have MINT Sarah as my Second OS for my Plex Server though also i have a Zotac Mini-PC for a Mini-Plex Server that i use as a Main Server cause my Linux is just for Back-up