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.
Can you be more specific about what is not doable and what is not doable simply? AutoCAD? Excel?
Turbo tax, but the web option is available. I think handbrake doesn’t support hardware acceleration? I forget… this may not be accurate…