Ah, fair. If it were a Steam license, it would be trivial to switch to the native build. Damn Epic!

Try Proton-GE instead. You might get a couple of FPS more

Whatever you decide, make sure you’ve got a backup of any important data before you start making any partition changes. Things go wrong occasionally even when they shouldn’t.

Exactly. A backup isn’t safe until it’s tested.

I’ve been avoiding btrfs for reasons like that.

I always get a Clonezilla image made before I do any major changes, which I find takes the anxiety out of situations like this.

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If XFCE feels too heavy (it probably won’t), you can try LXDE. I think XFCE is a good place to start though.

3D modeling in Blender or maybe CAD of some sort.