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So far, my only game is Dungeon Crawl (Stone Soup) and my concession to modernity is using the tiled version. There seems to be a version for everything.
Somewhere down the line I'll probably get into VR goggle (X-Ray Specs are passe)[^] At which time, I'll probably need to get more computing power than any of my current systems have.
Not making it a choice, but Ubuntu had a media version - I might look into that if it's to become a media box.
Here's a thought, obviously wishful thinking: if this were Linux based and used as one of the household media boxes, it's a way to get Mrs. Wife more accustomed to not-Windows and not-Android (we don't do Apple). The interface is functionally the same - getting rid of any hesitancy and fear.
As for the fooling around to do things consideration - isn't that what we do, here? Thanks for additional input into the pool of "OK, now what?" considerations.
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Lopatir wrote: linux is more fiddly to set up if you switch between different monitors (TV's) with different specs
With respect, that comment reflects history, not the current situation. My primary laptop, running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, has no trouble with external monitors of all shapes and sizes, VGA or HDMI connected or even a USB to DMI dongle. I just looked, it has cached setups for nine different monitors it has encountered. Plugging any of those in again, it doesn't even have to think about setup.
The only device I've had any problem with it recognising is a no-name USB 5.1 "sound card". And IIRC Win10 doesn't like it either.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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My NUC is the only system I interact with directly in my home office. It's hooked up to a 4K 40" TV and two 1080p monitors (via USB3 video adapters), and I spend my days in RDP sessions into VMs running on a host I have in another room. So, it doesn't matter at all that my local machine isn't as fast as one might expect nowadays. RAM was cheap when I got mine, so I maxed it out (16GB), and being an i5, it can comfortably run a VM or two or three on its own. I'm not sure Hyper-V runs on Celeron processors however (although I suppose you could use VMware or VirtualBox). But clearly, with only 4GB, that's not your goal here.
Still - I'd bump it up to 8GB and never think about it again. Any fairly recent OS will just keep running more smoothly with the extra RAM.
Given it's a NUC...I'd say unless you're comfortable fiddling with Linux drivers, stick to Windows...any version.
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I ![Heart | [heart]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/love.gif) my GigaByte Brix[^] (that I bought 2 years ago). Fed it a 500GB fast write Samsung SSD and 16GB of RAM and have never looked back. It's quiet as a mouse and allows my VS compiles to scream to completion!
/ravi
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i7, 5x the cost. I just got it as a play thing.
Now I feel inadequate.
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Ah, OK. Mine is a dev box that has the added advantage of joining me in my briefcase on overseas trips (where I have access to a full-size monitor, keyboard and mouse). #OldSchool
/ravi
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Great devices. I have two of them running Win10 without any issues.
Sorry. Be back soon it wants to do an update 
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's definitely justified in so many ways! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Now I'm convinced.
There's no justice in this world.
Or are you referring to justice fried?*
* No ketchup necessary.
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No, you can use a loop here.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Publishers Latin - meaningless. Having a senior moment? 
Never mind - serves me right for reading posts from the top down!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: serves me right for reading posts from the top down!
What was that about senior moments?
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Touche!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Strange - I've never cared much for Tim the Elephant. He was definitely one of the weakest actors in my all time favourite series (Deadwood of course!).
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Johnny J. wrote: my all time favourite series (Deadwood of course!).
I'll have to check it out. 
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Curse you (or not). Those backup singers really know how to activate one's mating instincts.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Those backup singers really know how to activate one's mating instincts.
I had to cringe as my mind was screaming "STD" whenever one of..."them"...was on screen.
The only instincts that got activated for me have to do with self-preservation.
Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks, I guess...
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You just reminded me. Somewhere near my mum's house is a network with the SSID "Pretty fly for a Wifi"
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Aren't those the instructions for playing Dabbo on Deep Space 9?
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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