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.
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
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https://www.piped.video/watch?v=KyADkmRVe0U
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