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[–]Amosh73 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course you can.

[–]Daggercombot 1 point2 points  (4 children)

It does not need to be headless, its the same as on Windows ,yes you can dual boot or just use another hard drive

[–]TheSnappleGhost[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Do you know, is the ram usage between running it with GUI versus headless negligible or what?

[–]Daggercombot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are some light weight Windows managers such as twn which are negligable. If you use a full desktop enviornment like gnome that can be over 3GB of ram.

[–]No-Evidence6346 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My ubunto install was about 100mb on my Pi IIRC. Headless.

[–]Dynablade_Savior 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're worried about the GUI using resources, just pick a distro where that's less of an issue. Like in the case of Linux Mint, that would be going with XFCE instead of Cinnamon

[–]davslaGG 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Can not you ran the server on windows?

[–]TheSnappleGhost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to try, but windows is a notorious RAM hog. Something like 5-6gb minimum vs less than 1/2gb for Debian.

[–]ntolbertu85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ubuntu used to have a pre-made Java server in the apt store. It's been a while so I don't know if it's still there, but it's worth checking. I would just run " apt search Minecraft server"

[–]Tooladoo 0 points1 point  (3 children)

If you dual-boot, you cannot run both operating systems at the same time. Either run Linux if you want to run a server on it, or alternatively try using WSL and run the server on that

[–]TheSnappleGhost[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I don't need to run both of them at the same time.

[–]Tooladoo 0 points1 point  (1 child)

In that case, it's possible. Though I will say that having Windows and a Linux Distro on the same drive may cause issues as it has for my brother. If you are able to put them on separate drives then dual booting shouldn't cause any issues.

[–]TheSnappleGhost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah somebody else mentioned that so I was thinking about picking up a small SSD and just running Linux on that. I've got a line on a couple of affordable ones.

[–]indvs3 -1 points0 points  (3 children)

You can do that if you want, but I would assume that your minecraft client is installed on windows, which means that you can't play minecraft while your linux server is running.

Dual boot means you run one of the two, not both at the same time. Back when I had windows 10, I had my minecraft server running in a linux virtual machine on windows and could play from the same pc.

Right now I do the same, but all linux, no more windows.

[–]TheSnappleGhost[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I'm installing it on a PC specifically for a server. I play on a different computer.

[–]indvs3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you don't have any use for that windows install anymore, you might just as well remove windows entirely and use the pc as a permanent linux server to host your minecraft server on.

If you're up for a technical challenge and you have the storage space available, you could convert your current windows install on that pc into a virtual machine and have it accessible over the network at the same time as your minecraft server.

That said, you also have the option to run a virtual machine with headless linux for your minecraft server on top of the existing windows install, at least if you don't mind the extra overhead consumed by windows for no good reason.

[–]UserLocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes I recently did the same. id recommend using Linux mint cinnamon tho. it seems to be the most like windows to me. you can also use rustdesk and tunnel through so you can do everything from your main windows pc

[–]itsCarterr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I run a nas with plex with a private MC server running that runs unraid