It depends on what you’re planning to do with your node.

If you’re just planning to use it to validate your own transactions from a new wallet, then you can get away with running a pruned node. This takes only ~6GB of hard drive space. Your daily driver OS is fine, and all you need is Bitcoin Core with stock config.

But if you’re planning to run a full archival node that’s online at all times, and you want to be able to recover wallets quickly, then you’ll need storage space for the full chain and tx index (~500GB and growing), and you’ll probably also want to run an Electrum server (~30GB and growing).

For Electrum server, I’ve used ElectrumX and Fulcrum. I’ve heard good things about electrs, though I haven’t used it. Fulcrum is what I’d personally use for a new node today.

There are existing node bundles that make setup somewhat easier, like myNode, Umbrel and BTCPayServer. Not sure which is easiest to install and use.