I have a history of bringing up a home Linux machine and then finding a need for that hardware doing something windows-y in short order.

I’ve just added a new SSD to one of my NUC machines and installed Ubuntu 17 on it. I’m expecting that I’ll likely move this to a new NUC at some point in the future as I do have windows work for the current NUC (but can live without it for now).

I’m looking at doing some microservices and MongoDB work in the sandbox in the near future and I’d like to have a working (non-VM) Linux install to host some code and as a built platform for Linux preferring tools. Worst case I wind up switching the SSDs back and forth as my needs vary.

For now I’ll need to get this install configured when I have time and look at putting MongoDB on it at a minimum. I’ll probably add Node and few other bits (assuming they don’t just come out of the box these days) to make this machine broadly useful.