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.

  • mayoi@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Any ffmpeg based media player like mpv can play pretty much any video format that you will ever have to watch.

    PDF viewing can be done even in your browser if there’s no PDF viewer to your liking.

    Handling word documents is going to be a big problem… But even running Linux, then setting up a virtual machine to run windows on for some tasks, is better than running windows.