Well, the Mini PC arrived last week, but it’s much better than my wife’s old PC and I decided she should have the Mini PC.
It wasn’t fair to have a PC just to “play” with as a server, better than one that is used daily.
Last week I installed everything necessary for my wife to use on a day-to-day basis, with Windows 11, but he agreed to test Thunderbird and OnlyOffice instead of Microsoft Office and Outlook, which is what she has always used.
I hope that in the next installation she’ll agree to try Linux Mint… But, quite frankly, I no longer have the patience to install and configure Windows (it was already installed), but during the updates, it gave an error and from then on it was like a black desktop all the time. I couldn’t even get it to work properly in recovery mode and had to reinstall it again.
It’s been running test after test without any problems or slowdowns, and now I can touch her old PC to run tests.
I’m going to test this old PC to see if it consumes less power than the old PC I was using to test the server, but this time I’m going to test it with Debian.
I took two steps back again, but it was for a good cause.
I’ll keep you posted on the server installation
Jorge