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Depends on if it's legal...
lets pretend everything in the world is 'legal'...
Then pretty much the same...
.... which would you go with?
Server of course it's more optimized for servers. lol
My NAS is running server 2012r2 but I'm pretty sure desktop system can also do the work.
Windows 8.1 or Server 2012 is going to be heavy for a just server use or rdp they look good not as good as windows 7
If you need it for storage and file transfers the answer is Windows 2012 CORE.
You control it with remote powershell and it will be lighter then a feather on system resources.
You're going to get more features (and require less resources) if you use server.
I use server 2008 r2 for my home server with hyper-v, much more stable and needs less updates/reboots than win 7/8.
Now thats like comparing apples and oranges. One is a server OS and the other are desktop OS with features installed that is not on the server OS.
Ironically, my Windows 2012 R2 home server has the highest uptime of all my Linux based servers. All those kernel and OpenSSL updates on Linux.