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.

  • Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz
    6·
    8 months ago

    Thanks everyone for all the helpful replies. A lot of people mentioned the office webapps, personally I’ve always detested these. Things like keyboard shortcuts for sub/superscript and support for IEEE referencing were not available as far as I remember, and in general they were more minimal than the desktop version and so slower if you needed to use many features. I think the consensus is I will stick with Windows for my uni work for now, but I can try out onlyoffice, and use a bootable USB to start learning more about Linux for later on down the road. Cheers!

    • Gianni R@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Sounds like you’re entrenched. If that’s the case, don’t look at Linux until you’ve accepted that things aren’t going to be identical to Windows & there will be drawbacks to your workflow as well as benefits

      • Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        8 months ago

        I wouldn’t say I’m entrenched, I’m happy to learn new ways of doing things as and when appropriate.

        On the other hand, although I would like to migrate to Linux, it’s not one of my top priorities, and it sounds like the drawbacks in compatibility when submitting documents into university systems and working on group projects would outweigh the benefits for now, for me.

        But I look forward to working towards never learning what windows 11 is like!