npub1rh…s2alf on Nostr: Firstly, congrats on finding your back to Linux even after having to relearn ...
Firstly, congrats on finding your back to Linux even after having to relearn everything from scratch! People often rhetorically ask, "given another opportunity, would I do it again?" Now you can say, yes! :-)
About your installation issue, all Fedora media has a check media option in the boot menu. Next time, use that to be certain and avoid wasting any time :-)
About installing multiple desktops, "heavy" really doesn't matter as long as you have disk space. I hope you upgraded the internal drive to a nice 1TB SSD, they are pretty cheap these days.
That said, since nowadays a desktop also provides certain services, sometimes having multiple desktops can clash on these services. I've found this to be the case if you install 2 "big" desktops, like Gnome & KDE, as opposed to, one "big" and other lightweight desktops. Often the desktops have a way around by enabling compatibility options. This is because often users might prefer one desktop, but want to use a major application from the other ecosystem. You have to find out about these compatibility options.
Unfortunately I can't help, I use XFCE, of course on Fedora!
PS: do checkout the flatpak options as well, specially if you have to use something proprietary. They are much better supported on non-Ubuntu systems.
About your installation issue, all Fedora media has a check media option in the boot menu. Next time, use that to be certain and avoid wasting any time :-)
About installing multiple desktops, "heavy" really doesn't matter as long as you have disk space. I hope you upgraded the internal drive to a nice 1TB SSD, they are pretty cheap these days.
That said, since nowadays a desktop also provides certain services, sometimes having multiple desktops can clash on these services. I've found this to be the case if you install 2 "big" desktops, like Gnome & KDE, as opposed to, one "big" and other lightweight desktops. Often the desktops have a way around by enabling compatibility options. This is because often users might prefer one desktop, but want to use a major application from the other ecosystem. You have to find out about these compatibility options.
Unfortunately I can't help, I use XFCE, of course on Fedora!
PS: do checkout the flatpak options as well, specially if you have to use something proprietary. They are much better supported on non-Ubuntu systems.