Nobody here is talking about updating windows, you should at least write the context for your previous message

This is not a debate whether one is better or the other, just saying to unplug your windows drive to install Linux, no need to defend linux

Yes, first time when I installed Nobara, then second time when I installed Fedora. Both times windows was in another drive, both times I picked the right drive. I asked around and people recommend unplugging your windows drive, I agree.

I say unplug the windows drive always, even if you don’t fuck up your Linux install may nuke your windows boot partition and it’s massive PITA to get it back

Nah, that was a few years ago, its 50% on every thing now, literally looking at the price on aliexpress as I write this, R$29 earphone with R$14 tax

Even products bellow 50 USD are getting the 50% tax now, and xeons dont have igpu, I prefer to buy an intel with igpu to do hardware encoding/decoding, more efficient and I heard it gets the job done really well (jellyfin says to absolutely not buy AMD APUs for hardware decoding btw). For hosting I actually have pots 80 and 443 open on my router so Ive been using caddy and duckdns with no issues.

Which hard drives have you bought btw?

Been using duckdns with a caddy reverse proxy, no idea what I will do with the server tho

I sure hope my system does not draw 350W!

Thanks, I might go with what I listed tho I still ahve no clue about intel motherboards

Thanks for being the only one here that is actually commenting on hardware choices, everyone else is trying to convince me to try stuff I already tried haha

I might just splurge and get one of those drives afterall, hopefully they go on sale at some point

yeah, might look into that after I ahve it up and running thanks

Luckily electricity isnt TOO expensive here but I will keep that in mind thanks

Not an option, a friend sent me a box with a few snacks and even that got taxed

Man, 7200 version of those drives are all over 400 USD here, my poor bank account

Will stream over the internet and being in a developing country a lot of devices can’t even handle h265 so los of transcoding. Will also host foundryVTT and maybe some game servers

I live in a developing country, when libraries/business and other places get rid of hardware its because its literally useless, Im talking single core 32bit cpus useless. I made this thread so I hopefully wont make any mistakes hahaha

No need to think, I mention in another comment that we have 50% tariff on all imported stuff. And I’m not buying 10 year old stuff for that price lol

Yeah, might do just that then, thanks

What would be some options for NAS drives? The ones I found were quite expensive to the point I think it would be cheaper to just replace damaged drives and run them in RAID. Was also thinking about using a M.2 drive to run programs on and HDDs for file storage, I wonder how beneficial and how hard it is to do that

yeah, dont think the dedicated GPU will be necessary, most posts Ive seen clain that intel’s igpu can handle multiple 4k streams, tho I could try to find a cpu with the 770 instead of the 730? Not sure how much of a diff it would make tho