So I was concerned about non compatibility at first, but I was bored this weekend and I love to tinker anyhow. I had an old Lenovo M93p tiny form factor laying around (which you can pick up for $200 on Amazon with an i5, SSD, and 8gb of ram + its whisper quiet at listening distance for me, 8-10ft from speakers) and so I followed the instructions to get the ROCK img on a usb stick. Plugged that into my pc, booted unto it, installed. It was soooooooo easy. I opened a browser on another computer went to the IP address it told me to go to. Then I had to install ffmpeg and reboot. The Roon documentation is so good. Cheers to that team! Links below.
https://kb.roonlabs.com/ROCK_Install_Guide
https://kb.roonlabs.com/Roon_OS_Missing_Codecs
I just wanted to share this to encourage people to play around. So happy I dont have to spend money on extra hardware, or keep up with updates on Windows 10 (that was installed before). Any questions let me know.