Welcome to the Club!

I had a similar issue around 2 years ago now on POP where my bootloader didn’t even show up in the bios anymore.

If you still have the a USB with the live boot of POP you can use it to recover your files n stuff.

https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-recovery

qBittorrent! You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.

Was using Deluge before on Windows and for a while when I switched to Linux but started having issues with it.

As someone who started using Linux while on Nvidia and stuck with it for over a year before going full AMD.

Just go AMD, so many little things I had to find workarounds for just because of Nvidias shitty drivers.

Even after Nvidia claimed to support wayland I could never get it to run on my install, then having to manually configure my xorg just to get my 170hz monitor working which then introduced graphical issues I just couldn’t fix…NONE of that was an issue the moment I swapped to a RX 7800 XT, didn’t even have to install any drivers they’re just standard in the kernal.

I’d like to think there’s a difference between “keeping up with the times” and chasing whatever new thing gets advertised.

Unless you’re really into number chasing with benchmarks then just keep using whatever you like until something YOU find better comes along.

Also I’m GenZ and just use whatever comes with the DE, it’s not an old person thing shakes fist.