I personaly wanted to build my own. The J5040 ist a nice but very slow CPU. If your searching for a Power efficent CPU i can recommend this Video.

Bildung a Power efficent Home server

I use for my Server Just an i3 10th Gen and it is fast enough.

I tried it for fun and yeah with my gear i can’t hear any difference really.

In my younger years I just pirated the hell out of software. From Photoshop to Sony Vegas. Nowadays i use Foss because of my Linux use, but even for my Boyfriend PC’s I mostly leet him choose between Pirated Programms and FOSS software and he mostly just needs an easy software. FOSS isn’t as feature full as paid software but mostly for the normal stuff you do you can just use FOSS.