I have hosed so many installs over the past 20 or so years that it's impossible for me to guess a number. It's part of the learning process. Just keep at it and you'll get there.

He replied to 14, but there was no actual answers to any of the questions.

Win11 for work laptop. Wn11 on my personal desktop, with WSL. I use Debian on my personal laptop and a number of "servers" running Debian.

Yeah, there is nothing wrong with it. It functions and it's very straight forward. But I can see why someone would say it looks outdated.

I recently started using Linux again after a 15+ year hiatus. The Debian installer looks exactly the same as it did when I stopped using it. I'm not hating, just stating why it might look outdated for some people.