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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    10 months ago

    I am just using it for basic web browsing, image editing, and communication. No coding or anything fancy.

        • MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org
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          10 months ago

          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.

        • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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          10 months ago

          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

          • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
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            10 months ago

            I played dos games on Windows 95 almost 30 years ago, I’m not sure what being old has to do with it.

            • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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              10 months ago

              … 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