Yeah, now that I’m trying to remember I don’t know if it had enough clearance but it didn’t seem like a problem when I was installing it. Which leads me to believe that it wasn’t touching anything that I am aware of.
This would make sense but when I removed them to rotate them, they seemed to have a pretty big clearance both ways. Although not being able to see what is actually happening when they are inside, maybe this is what was actually happening.
Maybe I wouldn’t have had any problems if I tried a more stable distro like Debian. I guess it all depends on what you want to use your PC for and if you like to tinker.
I have installed zorin on another pc and it worked okay, but I wanted to try kde for the customization as well. I will probably try fedora kionite next and if that doesn’t work i don’t know.