The issue you have is most likely a BIOS artifact. New drive makes bios think you have EFI based system vs old drive was BIOS.

You are not likely to get accurate help here.

You don’t need to make drastic moves destroying data, but playing with BIOS settings may help.

You may need to identify your system capabilities, to troubleshoot effectively. Here is one way to do that:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide#Verify_the_boot_mode

I am not saying to install Arch. Just a way to identify your system.

One easiest way to get your old disc back is to wipe out formatting data on new disk. Be warned that running wipefs on wrong drive will loose all of your old disk data in less than one second. So, identify your disc with absolute certainty using lsblk, you may need options to lsblk.

Every BIOS is a bit different.

Some have option to boot using Old style partition scheme. Make sure it is on.

You can always boot any Linux distro you are most familiar with from USB and copy boot partition from old to new disc.

It is not that hard if you are familiar with command line level partition tools.

Arch Linux installer is great for that purpose simply because it is the main installation mode.

You can jump to command line tooling from Fedora installer easily as well.

That’s all the distro experience I have.

It is “the way” when you have more complicated disk setups like encryption, raid, mapper, etc.

It is an add in disguise for commercial project.

Fedora.

It seems to be easy to manage and fast to install.

SUSE is slow to run and self-update.

Debian is far behind and Ubuntu seems to always have an issue during or right after installation.

2 years old need to learn interaction with other people.

That’s how they learn language.

So, spend time with them, not the screen. Screen time will come by itself.

In fact there’s data of development delays if kids are exposed to screen at early ages. That is because our eyes like movement, but screen picture doesn’t provide meaningful world context. Especially games.

Only personal interaction gives words in meaningful action context.

My wife is speech pathologist, so I am sharing what I wax told.

We have a friend, who didn’t listen to no screen time. Kid is delayed in development. It is serious staff and yet so simple to prevent.

Give your kids all the time you can in 1st several years.

I used Arch for years, but found that I got everything at the same speed from Fedora for fraction of effort.

Fedora

Cargo is heavily used.

Your tutorial is the odd one.