On the bright side, 20TB of hard drives is relatively cheap these days if you buy used. They'll pay for themselves in a year if you kill the streaming services.Happy sailing
If a sysadmin expected me to use vim for every minor config tweak, I wouldn't want to be on their machines either.
You should be fine on basically anything. I have a similar-spec machine running Arch with KDE and it's rock solid.
"We would make less money, and that's worse than more money."