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I acquired (2) Optiflex 7040 micros and (1) 7070 micro.

Thoughts on what I should do with them?

Cost to me was $0. So if nothing else I want to wipe them and put a fresh OS install of some sort on them.

I acquired (2) Optiflex 7040 micros and (1) 7070 micro. Thoughts on what I should do with them? Cost to me was $0. So if nothing else I want to wipe them and put a fresh OS install of some sort on them.
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Yes you're right. Optiplex. They are i7s. I haven't popped them all open to see what they have for SSD's yet. The one 7040 I've turned on so far has all of 8GB of ram.

I've always wanted to put together something that has all of our movies stored digitally to stream to our TV.

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Some of those could take up to 64GB. Fill that thing up and run https://jellyfin.org/

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Oh cool. Would you recommend Linux for this application?

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I really don't have any real suggestions...I use debian flavors merely because that's what I "grew up with."

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Good enough for any Linux deployment.

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Those will run W10 comfortably, if you enjoy that sort of thing.

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I used to suggest plex but they have been doing dumb shit so yeah, like @stupidbird suggested. Jellyfin is probably a good route.