Your question is very interesting to me because I fit your situation. As a totally-blind musician, I have long preferred a hardware dedicated recorder over a software application on a standard computer. I am using the Focus Scarlet II interface to connect my Tascam DP24 to my desktop PC. While I could export a complete recording to that Audio Depot section on the Tascam DP24 and copy it from there to my desired location using Windows Explorer, I can eliminate queueing sounds I place at the beginning of a file before the starting of a song by placing a mark perhaps a second before the first note of my performance, position the Tascam to that point, then open Audacity and start its Record function. Similarly, at the end of the performance, I can immediately stop the Tascam's playback, then stop Audacity. Yes, I know that the DP24 has a nice Mixing and Mastering facility, but it has so far proven difficult for me to use without sight (and I do not have sighted assistance readily available). From what I have read in the manual, the Mixing and Mastering sections have great flexibility with compression, EQ, and other aids in producing a good-quality recording, but I have yet to learn them. Someday, I'll create a "sacrificial song" which will be no great loss if I totally "muff it" while knobbing around in Mastering; but for now, the Focus Scarlet interface has worked very well for me.
I periodically remove my card (WHEN THE MACHINE IS OFF) and put it in my PC to make a backup of that card; my PC has a screen reader giving me speech output, so the backup is far easier than trying to change the Tascam over to the function to directly couple it to a PC, and I keep each backup in its own folder. Yes, cards somehow occasionally get corrupted, or you accidentally reach the "full card" error while recording a song. So I do pretty good housekeeping on the actual card used in my DP24.
One other important point about the DP24 which I learned from a Youtube presentation: I understood that if you change settings for balance, EQ, and other parameters on one song, then open another song, that new song "inherits" the settings you made in the previous song. One method suggested to overcome that issue was to first create a blank song with a name you recognize, then keep it for starting the next song (but I think there is a Reset process involved which is more involved than I want to pursue). In short, I change only the settings which I can hear immediately when recording on a track (pan, bass, mid-range, and treble) which I can adjust on that track by turning the knobs. Put another way, I do far better working with real buttons and knobs than I do interacting with menus on a system which has no voice guidance. Fortunately for me, the Tascam DP24 works well enough for me to allow me to do some very nice recordings on it.
The Focus Scarlet II is relatively inexpensive, and I have very carefully set its two level controls for a good balance, then I placed it out of the way in somewhat like a "set and forget" location, doing all my levels with the sliders on the DP24. I have a "home-brew" record-level indicator which gives a tone whose pitch is related to the signal level at the monitor point. While this method is probably not as accurate as the VU meters on the DP24, I can get the balance I want by ear and set the overall level with the master slider on the DP24. My level indicator is built around a logarithmic barcode driver on which I used four of its "display outputs" to send signals to a transistorized audio oscillator to give me samples at four audio levels. When it is all said and done, the "object of the game" is to make or record satisfying music.
Incidentally, one "dig" I have against software recorders on a PC became evident a few days ago. Microsoft on one of its updates changed my soundcard from the built-in soundcard on the PC to the Focus Scarlet as the default, leaving me with no speech output on my PC, separating me from any operation I could normally do. Without sighted help, I had to call the company who does my PC service to fix it. The technician immediately saw that my default soundcard had been changed from the Speaker software on the PC to the Scarlet. Correcting that change gave me speech again. If I were going to rely heavily on a software recorder or DAW on my PC, I'd want separation from Microsoft's updates so that changes are not made automatically. But for now, I VERY MUCH PREFER BUTTONS AND KNOBS for my music recording.