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 like to tell you that everyone on lemmy hates your laptop keyboard. Please get a mechanical one.
One step at a time…
I primarily use my laptop on my lap, so I’m not sure how an external keyboard would fit into that setup.
The Openrazer driver suite combined with Polychromatic is better than the official razer stuff on windows. Less bloated and actually works properly. The only issue I had was needing remapper software to intercept mouse4 and mouse5 from my trackball for compatibility with Firefox forward/backward gestures. Same issue I had with the trackpad.
Let 'em cook!
Bad take but I do prefer my keyboards to have big nipples