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.
You do know you can try it without installing it on your drive, right?
I use it sometimes in virtual machines but not as a default os, and when I program locally I’m stuck with windows
You can also use live boot to test it.