I'm currently using SpiceWorks to administer my network. I've heard much about Zabbix and would like to use it, but I'm a Windows guy and don't know much about Linux/Unix. Is there a free Windows software that matches or surpasses Zabbix?
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Personally, I wouldn't.
This folder almost certainly has various drivers that you'll need if you ever rebuild the system, and it's far easier to keep hold of them somewhere than to have to find them all again. At the very least burn them onto a CD before deleting from the HDD.
(Plus I usually find that they're fairly small folders since drivers aren't usually that big... are you really going to save that much space?)
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I'm a Windows guy as well, and the only Linux machines I have are our Zabbix machines (of which we have a few).
If you're interested in getting your feet wet in Linux (it's really no more than a paddle pool, I promise), Zabbix is a great way to do so, because if you use Ubuntu Server, everything comes in neat packages that you install, very similar to how you'd expect to get it done on Windows, and once it's been set up, you can mostly leave the console alone and interact with it via a web interface.
To be fair though, I've dabbled in FreeBSD for around 10 years. Nothing serious, but enough to know the basic commands to get around, so although I don't really know how to run and administer Linux, I do know the basics