I have hosed so many installs over the past 20 or so years that it’s impossible for me to guess a number. It’s part of the learning process. Just keep at it and you’ll get there.

He replied to 14, but there was no actual answers to any of the questions.

Win11 for work laptop. Wn11 on my personal desktop, with WSL. I use Debian on my personal laptop and a number of “servers” running Debian.