I also had problems installing Win10 years ago, the problem was I had more than one drive plugged in… Took me half a day to figure that out.

The only problem with installing Linux (pop_OS this time) was I didn’t flash my USB stick properly, so user error. Also, could be my old Kingston Datatraveler isn’t well suited for the job

Don’t even want to think how badly installing Win11 now would break my system…