I’m sorry I completely missed your comment!
I actually have a few pretty decent franken-linux’s that run as servers on my LAN, but I’m doing most of my programming on my windows laptop, and it’s bootloader is very… restricted. I’ve tried getting linux on it many times but it softbricks each time and I have to open it up and jumper the ssd to an adapter to restore it. Too much work, I’d rather deal with windows than deal with bootloaders and kernel modification