im thinking about getting it to make apps/websites
they have a free community version
then i might start experimenting with unity

I've used 2008/2012. If you're unfamiliar with linux it is kind of nice because you can RDP onto it. Why do you want to use windows server specifically?

the whole thing with azure and it has the new nano server thing and way less bloatware and stuff idk it looked awesome for developers but mainly the less bloatware and it runs shit iit only needs to i mean it seemed like it was cool for developers