Rationally I know you will smell one another but I still maintain the opinion it will cancel each other out as a joke - to great frustration of my wife
Let me put it this way - I know nothing about programing and was also scared of all the terminal talk and stuff. And I can vouch for Linux Mint.
You know how you sometimes havento use command line in Windows for some issues? That's pretty much comparable to terminal usage from my layman perspective. I installed Linux Mint on a separate drive and only booted to Windows once or twice since then - it's been couple of months now
You are in your 20s so you probably won't have a referrence point but to me it felt like going back to simpler, older Windows version
Option 2 sounds best, but if that would mean broken images continuing I'd lean to nr 3.
I like the idea thatwas floated to retain temporary images for longer, but I don't really know if and how much that would help. If possible, it could be worth the try. But I'm just a layman in these things so what do I know?
Pretty sure I heard about strweberries on pizza as well.