For once we get a good support request with a detailed description of the symptoms, attempted troubleshooting steps, and relevant context. Show some respect and read the thing before insulting OP’s intelligence

Have you tried reading the post? They already did

You can use Meta or Super as a more agnostic term

Not what you asked for, but you may be interested in getting a keyboard running QMK where you can define these kind of modifier overloading (and much much more) on the keyboard itself, so it’s “portable” and doesn’t require OS/DE settings

External drives are more prone to damage and failures, both because they’re more likely to be dropped/bumped/spilled on etc, and because of generally cheaper construction compared to internal drives. In the case of SSDs the difference might be negligible, but I suggest you at least make a copy on another “cold” external drive if the data is actually important