TOR over VPN vs VPN over TOR

Ok, so every now and then I read about using TOR over VPN or VPN over TOR. Everyone seems to have different ideas, but I never really get the setting.

Instinctively, when mixing TOR and VPN, I think of launching the TOR Browser on a computer which is connected to a VPN.

If I understand things properly, when using a VPN with a regular browser, the data leaves the browser, goes to the VPN server, then to the server of the website I connect to. So my guess is that, using TOR Browser instead of a regular browser, the data leaves the browser, goes first to the VPN servers, and then to the TOR nodes, and on to the website. Is that right? Now, which one is that: TOR over VPN or VPN over TOR?

And finally, whichever one that is, how would one do the alternative option? By configure, for instance, the TOR Browser to connect via a VPN in its settings? I’m confused about that.

Thanks!

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