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Originally Posted by Spockmaster1701
Another question if someone can help: I've settled on Debian for it, should I do a gui install which will have more overhead, or just CLI?
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I've built, destroyed, rebuilt, and tweaked dozens of linux everquest emulator servers over the years, and the real decision with the gui or not, has nothing to do with hardware overhead. The server won't care. What I will say, is if you're new to linux at all, the gui will lessen the learning curve and give you some tools you may not know how to use from the command line. In my experience though, a non gui server will be more stable, I don't know if it's due to other applications I end up using because I have the desktop, or what exactly, but I have run a command line only server for months without touching it, where if I have a gui, it always seems to need to be rebooted more often.