Thank you for all the replies! I will bunker in and wait it out. For the nvidia problems, it’s Steam recommending me drivers which were pre installed on Ubuntu 24, but on 26.02 the were nuked :( I still want to be social and play some games with my friends

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-550-open

Gives all all these errors with dependencies.

Proton VPN I installed from official command lines from their website:

sudo apt install proton-vpn-gnome-desktop

`Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting assignments:

1. python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.0.1 is selected for install because:
   1. proton-vpn-gnome-desktop:amd64=0.10.1 is selected for install
   2. proton-vpn-gnome-desktop:amd64=0.10.1 Depends python3-proton-vpn-api-core (>= 4.14.0) [selected proton-vpn-gnome-desktop:amd64=0.10.1] For context, additional choices that could not be installed:
   • In proton-vpn-gnome-desktop:amd64=0.10.1 Depends python3-proton-vpn-api-core (>= 4.14.0):
     • python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.19.1 is not selected for install
     • python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.18.0 is not selected for install
     • python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.17.2 is not selected for install
     • python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.16.0 is not selected for install
     • python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.15.2 is not selected for install
     • python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.14.3 is not selected for install
     • python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.14.1 is not selected for install`

ok back to Ubuntu 24 it is :)