You can run it on a docker container on your main pc. It will only be accessible when your pc is on of course, but look up docker for windows. You could also run a Linux vm in virtual box and have the docker container run on it.

The whole stack start/stop is huge. It was my biggest issue. Looking forward to giving this a spin.

Securityonion is a great ids system. I used their distributed system, so I have 1 mini pc as a sensor and another as a manager/search. Works wonderful.