Well i would also like your opinions on a new desktop, if you build it yourself. I'm not entirely out of touch but which mainboard, which HDD, which graphic card and so on in 2022. For gaming of course; such a PC will do all else (like InDesign or Solidworks) easily then.
Right now i would go for a Gigabyte board, 32 Gb of Ram , a 500 Gb SDD for OS and IL2, SH3/5, and a big HDD.
Not sure on VR and so on