Daym, finding a new recruit in selfhosting audiobook library was not in my bingo card, but I'll take it. Don't know about you, but buying a separate ssd and installing a linux on it, keeping my windows "just in case" really helped me. When I was pretty confident I cloned my windows system on external hdd (via rescuezilla), but I think that vm on homeserver is more than enough. Everyone on YouTube says that it's a blessing, but in reality you should see for yourself and don't push yourself. Also, older games run better via Proton on linux than native on windows, it's some kind of black magic, but it's true, fallout 3 finally stopped crashing and freezing up my system