My DAW runs an absolutely stripped down instance of Windows 11 Pro installed on what started out as a relatively inexpensive Dell XPS 8940 that’s never crashed, no matter how I’ve pushed it.
I run Ableton Live, Reaper, supporting Kontakt with my current favorites virtual synths and effects by Arturia.
My audio interface is an Arturia MiniFUSE 2 with a CME WIDI I/O plugged into the MIDI DIN socket.
Lately, I’ve leaned increasingly on using MuseScore Studio Pro for capturing MIDI, composing and arrangement because seeing the notes as a score “feels” good. I’m a few weeks short of 68 and started playing in public during the 1960, so I’m an odd combination of ancient and really new.
Anyway, here’s a link to the how-to guide I used for optimizing Windows 10 by Pete Brown, Microsoft development lead for MIDI 2.0, and board chairman in collaboration with president Athan BIllias at the MIDI Association.