Windows 10 RAM Efficiency VS Ubuntu?

[Urzu1000]

Hello everyone! I recently purchased a Kangaroo PC, which is a tiny little thing running Windows 10 Home 64-bit with 2GB of RAM.

Does anyone know exactly how much RAM Windows 10 uses by default, compared to something like Ubuntu? I know Windows has improved quite a bit on RAM efficiency, so stereotypes might not still be accurate.

I'm interested in running a small Minecraft server as an experiment on it, but I would also like to try hosting a tiny web server, a DNS server, and maintain a MySQL Database for said Minecraft server, all on a single machine if possible.

 

[milk_inc]

Hello windows it will support your machine fine, with the 2 gb if you are going at 64bit, if you are at 32 bit with 1gb of ram will be fine, right now all the stuff you are telling doing at windows I believe your machine won't handle at the same time, of course on linux will be different, I believe if you choose Ubuntu is going for the server edition, everything you said about your pc all the data that income from gaming, sql, web server, as dns, if is atom I highly doubt it, all this at the same time, but as you buy this machine for testing go for out and test, what I will recommend this, do it without a graphical interface all the servers that you mentioned, and you should start with the server you highly want to try and check the performance. An example will be minecraft if you try to use with a few player, and check the performance and if can handle as is java it will use ram a lot, how your little device perform.
My sugestion is go for ubuntu if is the distro you know if you need a DE go for something less heavy as xubuntu or lubuntu(personally i will choose other distro focus that consume less cpu and ram), then try to run a server how it perform anyone you wanna it and then keep adding until you device won' t handle anymore.

 

[Urzu1000]

Thanks for the reply milk_inc. I'll check out the Ubuntu variants. Personally, I use Linux Mint. But that's basically a light-modified version of Ubuntu, so it's probably the most familiar server wise.

I've done the math, and I 'think' I can run everything at once. I'll update this when I have some results.