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.
I would have chosen Debian with KDE Plasma (or with Cinnamon if you prefer that) but… close enough :)
Welcome to the herd!
Just found out this agrees with my opinion on all the distributions:
Chris Titus Tech - The Linux Tier List
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyADkmRVe0U
In case you want to do the usual distro hop in the future, just because there are so many jummy flavours
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=KyADkmRVe0U
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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Still based on Ubuntu and conceived by Canonical, but give it a spin, that’s part of the fun to try things out, break them, try the next toy :)
Hurd*
Redox
You joke, but sometimes I write scripts in ion. It beats the hell out of bash in terms of syntax
Only half a joke as I do have an eye on what happens with NixOS, Redox, Guix and other, more experimental, stuff. Gonna look up on Ion, thanks