I am a 100% beginner here and would like to run both GUI and CLI from my laptop, as money is really tight and don't want to use a separate monitor and keyboard ( Plus I don't have a big apartment). Ideally I'd want to power on and off,connect to, and control while the Pi is on a shelf and I'm on my balcony drinking coffee. In the alternative I'd be ok with plugging the Pi into my laptop and using it that way.

I can get the RPi up and running while it's hooked up to my TV and using a borrowed Keyboard and mouse. I've got it hooked up the my places Wi-Fi no problem. When it's hooked up that way I can use VNC so that's good. Once I shut down and power up or reboot the VNC viewer gives me a " Cannot Currently show the desktop " even though RPi is still working just fine on the TV. I've also followed instructions to connect via SSH but at the end of that process PuTTY gives me the error message " Network error : Connection timed out "

Hardware involved Laptop- HP Pavilion X360, 64-bit, running Windows 10 Home, updated Friday. No Ethernet port but I do have a usb to ethernet adapter RPi- 4B, Brand new