diff --git a/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/scripts/spin-operator.namespace.yaml b/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/scripts/spin-operator.namespace.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ee441a75d9..00000000000
--- a/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/scripts/spin-operator.namespace.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Namespace
-metadata:
-  name: spin-operator
diff --git a/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/scripts/spin-operator.shim-executor.yaml b/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/scripts/spin-operator.shim-executor.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 357046c1f55..00000000000
--- a/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/scripts/spin-operator.shim-executor.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: core.spinoperator.dev/v1alpha1
-kind: SpinAppExecutor
-metadata:
-  name: containerd-shim-spin
-spec:
-  createDeployment: true
-  deploymentConfig:
-    runtimeClassName: spin
diff --git a/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/scripts/spin-operator.helm-chart.yaml b/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/scripts/spin-operator.yaml
similarity index 52%
rename from pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/scripts/spin-operator.helm-chart.yaml
rename to pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/scripts/spin-operator.yaml
index 3f6cc096d2f..9a716915802 100644
--- a/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/scripts/spin-operator.helm-chart.yaml
+++ b/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/scripts/spin-operator.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+---
+apiVersion: core.spinoperator.dev/v1alpha1
+kind: SpinAppExecutor
+metadata:
+  name: containerd-shim-spin
+spec:
+  createDeployment: true
+  deploymentConfig:
+    runtimeClassName: spin
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Namespace
+metadata:
+  name: spin-operator
+---
 apiVersion: helm.cattle.io/v1
 kind: HelmChart
 metadata:
@@ -7,5 +22,5 @@ spec:
   chart: "https://%{KUBERNETES_API}%/static/rancher-desktop/spin-operator.tgz"
   targetNamespace: spin-operator
   # Old versions of the helm-controller don't support createNamespace, so we
-  # create the namespace separately via spin-operator.namespace.yaml.
+  # created the namespace ourselves.
   createNamespace: false
diff --git a/pkg/rancher-desktop/backend/backendHelper.ts b/pkg/rancher-desktop/backend/backendHelper.ts
index 2f56ebd73fe..4570ced9315 100644
--- a/pkg/rancher-desktop/backend/backendHelper.ts
+++ b/pkg/rancher-desktop/backend/backendHelper.ts
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@ import yaml from 'yaml';
 
 import INSTALL_CONTAINERD_SHIMS_SCRIPT from '@pkg/assets/scripts/install-containerd-shims';
 import CONTAINERD_CONFIG from '@pkg/assets/scripts/k3s-containerd-config.toml';
-import SPIN_OPERATOR_HELM_CHART from '@pkg/assets/scripts/spin-operator.helm-chart.yaml';
-import SPIN_OPERATOR_NAMESPACE from '@pkg/assets/scripts/spin-operator.namespace.yaml';
-import SPIN_OPERATOR_SHIM_EXECUTOR from '@pkg/assets/scripts/spin-operator.shim-executor.yaml';
+import SPIN_OPERATOR from '@pkg/assets/scripts/spin-operator.yaml';
 import { BackendSettings, VMExecutor } from '@pkg/backend/backend';
 import { LockedFieldError } from '@pkg/config/commandLineOptions';
 import { ContainerEngine, Settings } from '@pkg/config/settings';
@@ -29,9 +27,7 @@ const MANIFEST_DIR = '/var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests';
 const MANIFEST_RUNTIMES_YAML = `${ MANIFEST_DIR }/z100-runtimes.yaml`;
 const MANIFEST_CERT_MANAGER = `${ MANIFEST_DIR }/z110-cert-manager.yaml`;
 const MANIFEST_SPIN_OPERATOR_CRDS = `${ MANIFEST_DIR }/z120-spin-operator.crds.yaml`;
-const MANIFEST_SPIN_OPERATOR_SHIM_EXECUTOR = `${ MANIFEST_DIR }/z121-spin-operator.shim-executor.yaml`;
-const MANIFEST_SPIN_OPERATOR_NAMESPACE = `${ MANIFEST_DIR }/z122-spin-operator.namespace.yaml`;
-const MANIFEST_SPIN_OPERATOR_CHART = `${ MANIFEST_DIR }/z123-spin-operator.chart.yaml`;
+const MANIFEST_SPIN_OPERATOR = `${ MANIFEST_DIR }/z125-spin-operator.yaml`;
 
 const STATIC_DIR = '/var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/static/rancher-desktop';
 const STATIC_SPIN_OPERATOR_CHART = `${ STATIC_DIR }/spin-operator.tgz`;
@@ -301,9 +297,7 @@ export default class BackendHelper {
       vmx.copyFileIn(path.join(paths.resources, 'cert-manager.yaml'), MANIFEST_CERT_MANAGER),
       vmx.copyFileIn(path.join(paths.resources, 'spin-operator.crds.yaml'), MANIFEST_SPIN_OPERATOR_CRDS),
       vmx.copyFileIn(path.join(paths.resources, 'spin-operator.tgz'), STATIC_SPIN_OPERATOR_CHART),
-      vmx.writeFile(MANIFEST_SPIN_OPERATOR_SHIM_EXECUTOR, SPIN_OPERATOR_SHIM_EXECUTOR, 0o644),
-      vmx.writeFile(MANIFEST_SPIN_OPERATOR_NAMESPACE, SPIN_OPERATOR_NAMESPACE, 0o644),
-      vmx.writeFile(MANIFEST_SPIN_OPERATOR_CHART, SPIN_OPERATOR_HELM_CHART, 0o644),
+      vmx.writeFile(MANIFEST_SPIN_OPERATOR, SPIN_OPERATOR, 0o644),
     ]);
   }
 
diff --git a/pkg/rancher-desktop/main/commandServer/settingsValidator.ts b/pkg/rancher-desktop/main/commandServer/settingsValidator.ts
index 6f50672569c..fa8263660f1 100644
--- a/pkg/rancher-desktop/main/commandServer/settingsValidator.ts
+++ b/pkg/rancher-desktop/main/commandServer/settingsValidator.ts
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ export default class SettingsValidator {
 
         return false;
       }
-      if (mergedSettings.kubernetes.version === '' || semver.gt('1.22.0', mergedSettings.kubernetes.version) ) {
+      if (mergedSettings.kubernetes.version === '' || semver.gt('1.22.0', mergedSettings.kubernetes.version)) {
         errors.push(`Setting ${ fqname } requires Kubernetes 1.22 or later`);
         this.isFatal = true;