Given your use case is a Mac, any Mac, running OSX even an option? I also use FPGA cards and what not but I do so in a separate Linux box because all the tools

Given your use case is a Mac, any Mac, running OSX even an option? I also use FPGA cards and what not but I do so in a separate Linux box because all the tools I need to for the setup only have native Linux versions. And if all you need is a screen running OSX which remotes into other things, isn’t that what the iMac is?