Can I control a raspberry Pi or Arduino with a PC

[dal]

So what I ultimately want to do is control some addressable LED strip lights via my PC, I don't mean ones inside my case but a external strip ( about 1M / 144 LEDs ). I'd like to make a PC application with a user interface for this. Now I'm assuming I can't directly control the lights with my PC so I'm thinking I will need to pass instructions to somthing like a raspberry pi or arduino to make it possible.
BTW the lights / pi will be in the same room as the PC, about 2M away.

So a couple of questions if you will :
1. Can I control EXTERNAL addressable leds with a PC ?
2. If the above answer is no then would what I've described above be possible ?

I know next to nothing when it comes to raspberry pi /arduino so any help for a begginer appreciated.

 

[dal]

Hi, thanks for your help.
The ones I were looking at were WS2812B ( addressable ) not sure if there's any difference to WS2818B but I havn't bought them yet so could get somthing different, although I've not seen any WS2818 strips.
What I like about the ones Ive linked to is they are quite close together although it might make them a bit tricky to cut and solder.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07TB198W5?ref_=pe_780071_41837251_dpLink