Airdragonz

Right click on your desktop, and there should be an option for Nvidia Control panel. If it's not there, then make sure your graphics card and drivers are properly installed.

Only local threats. If your phone happens to be stolen, your information might be at risk, or the thief can just wipe the phone without needing your Google account and password. The only thing a bootloader does is allow firmware not signed by the manufacturer to be flashed onto the device. So long as whatever you installed is not infected with a vulnerable backdoor, it's just as safe as the stock os.

Building your own will almost always be cheaper than buying a pre-built unless you're searching the used market. Companies that specialize in building these pc's will always cut corners to save costs on their end which might create problems for you a couple months down the line.

I believe Windows 10 requires 4 partitions to successfully boot into the operating system. You'll need to plug the drive into a working operating system and use a disk utility to verify that all four of those partitions are present.

Temporarily reinstall any operating system (Windows or Linux) onto a spare drive or flash drive. Verify that the storage device that you transferred all your stuff onto is readable and has all the data on it. Also verify that your C drive is still bootable.

Did you happen to remove/reformat your boot drive? Were there some drivers on the drive you removed or perhaps some WIndows specific files on that drive? When you say "blue screen" I'm assuming you are referring to a Windows 10 BSOD. Attempt to reboot into "advanced options" and proceed with a Startup Repair. If that doesn't fix things, try to boot into safe mode. If all that doesn't work, you might need to reinstall a fresh copy of Windows.

Well that kind of sucks. Guess I'll be buying a new skin. Thanks for your help!

I will be replacing my device with an identical one and am wondering how I can remove my dBrand skin on my current device in such a way that I'll be able to reuse it on my next one. Thanks in advance for the help.

Yes that's correct. You'll only have 3 sockets. The performance will be the same regardless of the socket as long as both are x4 PCIE. And correct, a USB to SATA adapter does not use any SATA ports.

The 6 fans will need to be connected to either a fan controller, or fan splitters from the headers on your motherboard

You don't need an AIO for that cpu unless you plan on overclocking quite a bit. The stock Ryzen cooler will do perfectly fine. Everything else looks pretty good

Nice rant. Life lesson is to do research into a company before investing in them. General rule of thumb: if something is too good to be true, it probably is.

A b450 motherboard with a 2600 ryzen cpu and a gtx 1060 or radeon 570 will work out pretty well for that budget.

Your mileage will vary as far as what works and what doesn't typically. Some rom stability depends on your kernel too. Here's a link to the Poco Lineage OS unofficial and another link for Resurrection Remix, which is based off of Lineage OS.

Any Lineage OS roms are typically close to stock and very snappy.