My sister has the $3700 Mac deluxe desktop set-up, and won’t let me near it, except to install her printer. I may need to have a look at Linux...
If you need a hand at all please drop me a line by freep mail. I have helped quite a few here and would love to do it so that you can just give it a test run. Like I say it costs nothing and changes nothing to run it from a CD to try it out. It’s actually not that complicated and I can lay it out step by step in easy to understand terms. :)
That is a pretty high end Mac. If you have been using a desktop/tower you could get a fairly good current Mac mini from e-bay for $400-$800 and use your existing Monitor and printer.
For under $500. you could build your own PC with the most recent AMD CPU, AMD Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor (OC to 4.0) with good onboard GPU, and 16 Gb RAM, and a full ATX MSI B450-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard, and it should run the latest W/10 64 build with not problem, as mine has and does (though with the Ryzen 3 3200G and tweaked). https://pcpartpicker.com/user/PBJ/saved/#view=4BsGcf
Praise the Lord. See thread Custom build you own modern computer (new Ryzen CPU) for under 400.00, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3773784/posts