on a bowden system yes, but just ever so slightly. not any more than you could fix with retraction and other settings, and prolly only nylon and other flexible ones you should be doing in a direct dirve anyway would be affected.

and even if it were worn down that much it wouldn’t cause any problem as the entire tube is made of the same slippery stuff, it’s not a coating.

cinnamon, lxde, kde, and mate are all desktop environments that mimic the basics of windows ui like the taskbar, start menu, and windows with minimize, maximize, and exit buttons at the top. and all can be installed/selected during install on pretty much every popular distro. there’s prolly some others i’ve forgotten but those are all solid choices.

edit: whoops had mint listed but that’s not a de that’s a distro

fighting for bitcoin to get an emoji is stupid, but fighting against it might be even stupider. surely there are more important things to spend your time and energy on. it’s a fucking emoji. who cares?

watchdog error, sleep and lockscreen freezing, and stable under some load tells me either the cpu isn’t getting enough voltage if it’s manually oc’d, or there’s some bios or os powersaving thing malfunctioning.

reset bios settings, especially if you’ve done any overclocking. turn off any core boost or other variable core clock powersaving amd/intel specific ‘features’; these are almost always unstable in my experience.

if that doesn’t work, double check all power cables are properly seated in both mobo/component side and psu side if it’s modular. make sure ram is seated properly. if you’re on windows make sure you’re on high performance mode. i can’t think of much else to check without more info. good luck!