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.

    • /home/jeze3d@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I love learning new tech and operating environments. I’ve been like that ever since I was little. When I even get a new gaming console half the fun for me is digging around in the dashboard settings.

      I was designing webpages in HTML4 back in the 90s as an early teen. Tinkering with stuff brings me joy.

    • cakeistheanswer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 months ago

      If you’re the type of person with an opinion on on how software should work, there are options to make it happen.

      It’s been my first trip back in a decade, just looking through my options in the core repo these days has made me giddy. I worked for years as a Windows environment sys admin, half my tools went out the window for directly better options almost immediately.

      Most of the open source software you’ll find had someone who thought there was a big enough issue to roll up their sleeves, so lots of the projects are answers to questions you haven’t thought of yet too. The entire orientation puts fixing things ahead of profiting off them.

    • Darkrai@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      It depends on the person and their experience obviously, but for me, trying Linux back in 2020 felt like when I was new to computers in general and was poking around and learning Windows XP for the first time. It was fun seeing all the different settings options and features that were new to me.