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’m not a big Linux head but have a steam deck and android phone. Have a laptop that I just really can’t see myself putting windows 11 on. And from the nice unproblematic experience i’ve had on steam deck I’m going to put mint on it.
Steam deck has transformed linux gaming 10-fold. Go give it a shot.
I hear good things about Chimera OS feeling a lot like Steam OS when you’re trying to get a similar experience for laptops, if that’s what you’re going for.