Yeah it was pretty silly, I for some reason blanked on the fact that boot is an important flag. Thankfully booting the live media worked

Oh yeah, didn’t think about trying with a live media. Will do that

This is a shit take

This sounds awesome! But is there anything similar that is Open Source by any chance?

I am not a techy person, not a programmer, nada, and linux (particularly fedora) has always worked with little to no issue for me.

The hardest thing I really ever have to do is enable the rpm fusion repos on a fresh install, and the only problem I consistently encounter is discord trying to take control of, and subsequently destroy, my audio when using bluetooth headphones.

I just use it because it is an easier, privacy & user respecting system.