Comment on Potential upgrade
themachine@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Set up what you want on what you already have and if your workload is more than your hardware can handle then upgrade.
Overall most of what you rattled off isn’t too resource heavy but 12gb of memory isnt exactly a lot and i dont know what your minecraft server will eat up.
Alternatively look up the recommended minimum specs for each of your desired applications and add up the needs.
Additionally if this isnt going to be a headless system and you want a desktop gui that consumes resources as well.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
If they’re using Linux, they should be fine. Most desktops don’t use a ton of RAM, and there are light desktops if that’s their issue.
If they’re running vanilla Minecraft with a handful of friends, just hosting the server should be fine. Mods are where things get ridiculous.