@ptillisch Thank you - and I was absolutely sloppy with my language. Not only was my intent to shoot for the stars, but more importantly, your comments about host are spot on. This is more of an OS <--> IDE question than physical hardware question... I am glad you can decipher me 
I do not have a mission critical need to do this - I do 99.9% of my Arduino programming on my W10 desktop, but I do enjoy the novelty and challenge of looking to do this differently. I'll give it a go!