I thought that might be the case after no responses showed up. This clearly shows how much of a Linux newb I am! There seem to be a lot of distributions and even a site that seems to keep a score (distrowatch). I did not aim to open a battle and I am actually coming from the Mac world. This NUC that I ordered is the very first PC I have ever owned. I had spent a grand total of about 2 hrs in the windows environment over the coarse 35yrs of sing computers before ordering it. I find the OS quite awful and kludgey, but I wanted to be able to have access to the majority of Astro software, so I picked one up at the end of last year.

Here are the basic specs:
Intel NUC NUC7i3BNH Mini PC/HTPC, Intel Core i3-7100U 2.4GHz, 8GB DDR4, 250GB SSD, Windows 10 Pro, WiFi, Bluetooth, 4k Support, Dual Monitor Capable.

I was thinking of getting a separate 500gb drive and cloning the W10pro stuff over to a partition and then installing Linux and basically Kstars on it. The 12v power requirement will be more ideal for remote imaging while using the battery pack. I would like to be able to operate it wirelessly in headless mode from an iPad or my macbook pro. I am guessing that will require some additional software as well.

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