Turns out the reply in my thread telling me the best way to combat not caring about Linux is to care about Linux was absolutely correct.

I picked up a laptop, installed Linux Mint Cinnamon, and I’m already obsessed. I haven’t had this much fun with a PC in a long time and it’s just a cheapo Dell Inspiron 3520.

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    112 years ago

    Time to learn root folders, package manager, source lists for package managers, where programs are installed, config files. and so forth. Then move on to fiddling with wine to get some windows only programs working. I had to spend a few hours getting my shitty laptop to run battle net client and star craft 2.

    All this might seem daunting at first. But take it slow and it will all be fulfilling once you grasped the basics.

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      72 years ago

      I’d say the most important bit is to get comfortable with using CLI, not learning all it’s ins and outs, but figuring out how to sudo, how to paste a command into the CLI, and how to search for what you’re trying to do.

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        52 years ago

        ZSH + Oh My Zsh, CTRL + R (for search), accidentally running a fork bomb, removing the French language pack - only good tines with the CLI

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      32 years ago

      I had to spend a few hours getting my shitty laptop to run battle net client and star craft 2.

      Funny, I never had issues with sc2. Every time it was just:

      Lutris -> wine and bnet dependencies -> bnet -> sc2

      Wc3 reforged + w3c on the other hand are a massive pain. I’m still unable to find a way to get them working reliably.