In the end had no luck with ventoy because of BS Lenovo legion uefi, rolled with fedora writer and all is well. Had no issues on a Thinkpad with kinoite
Ooop just realized why I wasn't upgradable to f40 on deck stable... I had manually rolled back after the April 6th kernel update borked my built in controller on the Loki Max. Just rebased stable.
This is why I recommend Bazzite to everyone I know. I've never had such an active community with devs directly involved and helping with troubleshooting. I really appreciate it.