Help me choose which distro to use please

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Hi folks

I wondered if anyone could help me out.

I've aquired a machine which is going to be used for storage, back up, streaming media and maybe some other stuff.

I'd like to install a version of Linux, but I'm not sure which one would be the best compromise between it's difficulty to set up and it's suitability for the job.

I was thinking Ubuntu, would the desktop version be okay or would I need a server version?

I've used Linux before but not set it up, so I'm a bit of a Linux nub.

Cheers
 
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Might have been useful to include that...

Athlon II Neo N36L 1.3GHz Dual-Core CPU
L2 Cache: 2MB L2
1GB DDR3 ECC UDIMM (looking to upgrade if necessary)
Embedded RAID 0/1
Gigabit Ethernet
 
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