>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 ... For an Ubuntu-based installation that I set up for myself, or for my friends, I often turn on the UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) that usually comes with Ubuntu-based Distros. And, I tend to prefer the GUI-version (GUFW) - which you can easily install via sudo apt install gufw. After installing the GUFW, I would then switch its status to On, and set the rules (Incoming=Deny, Outgoing=Allow). I find that even with these default settings, I could still run most of my apps, including several of the popular web conferencing out there - e.g. Google Meet, Zoom, BBB, etc. But of course, if you were to play with some of the server applications that are not using the standard ports like http/https, then you may need to tinker a bit with the GUFW firewall rules, or temporarily disabling the UFW altogether. H.T.H. Regards, Wen On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 2:31 PM Russell Coker via luv-main < [email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, 28 December 2020 2:22:22 PM AEDT Andrew Greig via luv-main > wrote: > > My activities include email, browsing, photo editing, watching the > > "University of YouTube", various social media. > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerFaq#What. > 27s_the_difference_between_desktop_and_server.3F > > According to the FAQ the main difference is the server version not having > the > GUI stuff. You can install the server version and install the GUI stuff > from > the Internet later, but it's probably going to be easier to install it all > right from the start. So use the desktop version. > > -- > My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ > My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main >
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