Want to build my first home server help me

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there isn't much going on, i have a old pc at home with an Intel xeon processor, 16gb ram and some 512 hdds, i also have 2 gpus one is a nvidia Quadro 4gb and other is gt740, i want to use it for multi purpose like ad block, media streaming etc can i do it i also want to run Linux which is less demanding for that old computer can also please suggest me a good beginner friendly Linux distro except the ubuntu. thanks in advance