On Monday, 28 December 2020 7:34:29 PM AEDT Wen Lin wrote:
From the use-cases you have described, yeah, I would have to concur with Mark & Russell here - go for the desktop version.
You can then install & run whatever server-side applications as you want on this Desktop PC. Want to get your hands dirty by doing most of your stuff in the command line / bash - no worries - you can always bring up the Terminal Emulator ...
No matter what you start with you can then install other stuff. You could probably even start with Debian and "upgrade" to a newer version of Ubuntu, but that's an expert level task that's not recommended. I don't think there's a good reason for separate server and desktop versions of Ubuntu to exist. It's probably as much for competing with RHEL server and desktop versions as anything else. With Debian you have a "net install" image that's about 180M to 350M which is text based by default and can install to either desktop or text-mode (which mostly means server) depending on options chosen. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/