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.
Awesome! I’m one of the guys peer pressuring you in the other side, and I’m glad to see it worked.
It also just so happened that you went for the same distro that I use on my desktop.
What’s going to be the primary use of this laptop other than having linux installed? Any projects or use cases in mind? I’m asking because I found out some time around the turn of the century hat the best way to learn linux is to use it for something one would otherwise do in Windows.
I am just using it for basic web browsing, image editing, and communication. No coding or anything fancy.
If you really want your mind blown, try setting up Steam and playing a Windows game.
On a cheap dell laptop? I don’t think that’s gonna blow anyone’s mind.
In that it’s not gonna run Cyberpunk 2077 or AAA game of your choice at 4k and a solid 120fps with raytracing, it certainly won’t impress, no. In how it can play almost any given Windows game out of the box with comparable performance, assuming your system is specced to run it, I think is impressive.
Playing games designed and compiled for one OS on a totally different one without a huge performance hit like what you see in console emulation is still voodoo to me. Guess I’m just old
I played dos games on Windows 95 almost 30 years ago, I’m not sure what being old has to do with it.
… Windows 95 was built on top of DOS. That’s not emulation or a reimplementation of a kernel API like Wine. It’s just dropping out of the GUI to play CLI games