Ok, so I was to lazy to properly source a pc and just went to bestbuy and picked up an ASIs desktop with an i5 650, 8Gb of ram, integrated intel graphics and 64 bit win 7 home premium. It is going in a cab with a WG D9800, so no higher than 800x600 display. I plan on trying to get an actlabs lightgun working and various other USB attached controls.
I have an obvious bias since I'm asking here, but for mame performance and to run as many emulators as possible with my hardware restrictions should I stay with win7 or switch to Linux?
If I do switch to Linux it would most likely become a mythtv backend and an asterisk pbx to help justify it being on all the time.
Thanks,