If you're building a new workstation or gaming PC or acquired a device that doesn't have an operating system, you will have to install Windows 11 manually. Although if you have never done it ...

To install macOS in Hyper-V on Windows 11/10, you need to enable Hyper-V, create a virtual machine, get the virtual hard disk and mount it. Check this guide to know more.

Winget, the built-in Windows tool, will install all of your favorite applications in a snap.

If your Mini PC hardware isn't very powerful or is on the older side, there are several excellent lightweight distros, many of which are based on Ubuntu, that you can consider as alternatives.