Is there an operating system that syncs Bitcoin core the fastest?

[jackg]

In my experience what really makes difference is not the OS, but the presence of an SSD and many CPU threads to verify incoming blocks. And of course a good downstream rate.

I have good upload/download speeds.
I don't want to use a good computer for this, nor do I want to spend something trying to mod a potato as I only need it to be quick when downloading the blocks.

There is a network histogram in debug, and this seem to show that sync'ing works in bursts on my Windows machine.

The same thing happens on Linux. I guess my internet is faster than my hardware can verify blocks.

I thought it would, the source codes are similar if not the same for both.

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[cellard]

I don't think you can separately download the files without verification as you go, so if you want it to go faster go SSD.

And OS wise, Xubuntu is a decent compromise, it looks good, and it's on the lightweight side, should do more than well enough on a 2 year old system. On the other hand, Lubuntu is perhaps overkill, it's designed to work in really old hardware. Then agan if you don't care about super minimalist GUI's then that should do. Ubuntu is too bloaty, I always avoid using it.

[alexrossi]

I have good upload/download speeds.
I don't want to use a good computer for this, nor do I want to spend something trying to mod a potato as I only need it to be quick when downloading the blocks.

You could do the following: sync first a Bitcoin core instance on a fast desktop/laptop PC, then move the .bitcoin folder to a slower/cheaper device to keep the node synced.

[jackg]

I have good upload/download speeds.
I don't want to use a good computer for this, nor do I want to spend something trying to mod a potato as I only need it to be quick when downloading the blocks.

You could do the following: sync first a Bitcoin core instance on a fast desktop/laptop PC, then move the .bitcoin folder to a slower/cheaper device to keep the node synced.

Which is what I may turn to doing.

Meanwhile, I have a corrupted database that needs fixing (since I'm away from my high spec machines for a while).

[LoyceV]

Meanwhile, I have a corrupted database that needs fixing (since I'm away from my high spec machines for a while).

In the time since you've created this thread, my old i3 (with Linux and enough RAM) could have synced the entire blocktime around 10 times.
Why don't you just start it and see how long it takes?

[jackg]

Meanwhile, I have a corrupted database that needs fixing (since I'm away from my high spec machines for a while).

In the time since you've created this thread, my old i3 (with Linux and enough RAM) could have synced the entire blocktime around 10 times.
Why don't you just start it and see how long it takes?

Because I can't install Linux without damaging a startup drive (which might not be possible depending on whether I can disable something or not).
And I'm not sure if I can install dependencies on live Linux, I have done it I think but I'm not entirely sure where the data gets saved.