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 can promise you I am being genuine. We’ve all been chatting about it on the Lemmy.world matrix server. People in there were helping me find a computer in real time as I walked around best buy asking questions.
Wow nice… I’m jealous of your experience on… the internet :D