The GPL states that its text must not be modified. I take this to mean (though I'm no lawboy), that if you wanted to have a license with the same terms plus some changes (the butthole rule), you would have to rewrite the whole thing. It would not nearly be a "GPL license".
This is very important nitpicking I'm doing here, okay?
Is your HDD NTFS? That can sometimes be an issue, I think.
... Jack is a nickname for John?
If you have the space (on a different drive, preferably) you could use Timeshift to create regular snapshots of (parts of) your system. You can restore deleted files like this from even months ago, if you configure it like that.
The first snapshot takes up as much space as all the files you want to save, but every following one only uses as much disk space as the new/changed files since the last snapshot.
Proton can run any Windows-only game on steam, you just have to enable it in the settings. The ones for which you didn't have to enable this either have a native linux version, or are officially supported in Proton, and should run very well. The other games may have more issues, but even those might work excellently out of the box.
Fallout's every mechanic keeps disappointing me, but I can always see a glimpse of how great they could be, so I keep playing. Maybe that's just not good enough for you.
I prefer a distro with a nice name
That's honestly a really good distro picking strategy for someone just moving to Linux.
~~Could it have been multiple spiders moving into the same burrow after the first one died?~~
from the first reference in the article:
There is a high level of certainty that #16 lived for 43 years. Neither males nor females re-use the defunct burrow of another spider. Adult spiders do not relocate if their burrow is damaged, but repair their existing burrow.
Ah! I would have guessed it could handle that too, with the platform being so popular.
If I absolutely had to watch a tiktok video, I would try giving the link to yt-dlp. That can probably download it.
(FYI: either something piques your interest, or your interest peaks at some point)