Why not just buy a Mac. A $2k configured mini will probably last you 10 years. Mines 5 already. I have 3ea 4tb SSD drives hanging off of it.

Set it and forget it.
Auto upgrade, auto backup.

Nothing is perfect but the mini is good enough for BIAB and a DAW.
I also do some development (C# in windoze on Virtual Machine)
Google Earth Pro and QGIS as well as Postgres DB.
Pretty big QGIS file with TB of video and track data.
No 100million row tables on the DB but some 10-20 million. Works just fine.


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