Hi, Brent!
Edge > Chrome. I use it at work. Much better.
What do you want to self host? To learn or experiment buy a cheap old x86 box. I get mine at goodwill auction. Otherwise desktop is good if you want something that needs more compute and that you’d spin up as needed vs always on.
Firefox for personal. I like Edge for work stuff.
I’ve used it in a VM just to mess around. I’d like to install it on an old ThinkPad and try to compile some applications.