My System:
My machine was “home-built” specifically to run MSFS-2020 and so far I have an unholy amount of money invested in this machine - to the point where my wife looks at me suspiciously whenever I walk into the house with a package. 
| Base System | |
|---|---|
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor 3.39 GHz |
| Video Card | AMD Radeon RX 68000 with 16 gigs of dedicated VRAM |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. |
| Installed RAM | |
| Installed Storage | WD Black SN850X HS 2000GB M.2 (PCIE) SSD[1] |
| System type | 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor |
| Primary Display | ASUS WW266H (1920 x 1200) HDMI |
| Pen and touch | No pen or touch input is available for this display |
| Virtual Reality | No VR headset. |
| Additional displays | None, but I have SpaceDesk available (but not installed yet), to use with several Android tablets as sub-screens. |
| Windows Edition | Windows 10 Pro |
|---|---|
| Version | 22H2 |
| Installed on | 10/27/2024 (A “wipe-and-reinstall” installation)[2] |
| OS build | 19045.5247 |
| Experience | Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19060.1000.0 |
| MSFS-2024 Setup | |
|---|---|
| Version | Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 - 1.2.8.0 (Aviator Edition) |
| Graphical Setting | High (Default from initial setup) |
| Assistances | Almost everything except for visual assistances |
| Controller setups | Not done yet |
| Last Aircraft | Default - currently Cessna 172 |
| Last Flight | Not done yet |
| Last Location | Unknown. (Whatever the default airport is.) |
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There are other storage devices installed too.
- I have a second 2T WD Black SSD for X-Plane 11 and 12 mounted as D:.
- A (hidden) 256G SSD for a “maintenance” Linux Mint install that also includes the boot-manager.
- A (hidden) 3T “spinning rust” hard drive for my granddaughters that has their own installation of Windows 10 that is completely independent of everything else.
- And a 5T hard drive as my “Downloads” and storage drive mounted as E:.
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The original installation was shared with my granddaughters, (who had their own username/userspace), and they loaded up the system with so many games and so many system add-ons that my flight simulator experience went down the tubes.
I ended up migrating their setup to a different drive, cleaned out the original SSD, and did a brand-new “bare metal” install with an entirely new activation key so that the systems are entirely severable - each and every OS hard drive is set up to be self-booting so that they can be moved to different machines in the future.
I have a special Linux Mint install that, (among other things), uses Grub2 as the boot manager for everything.