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.

  • Supercritical@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    You’ve got a lot of responses already, but as a business owner, I highly recommend not taking risks like this when you first start out. You don’t ever want technical problems like word documents not opening correctly to mean the difference between getting your work done and spending time working on… well, not work. This is why I’ve always advocated that Linux is great, especially for my home compute, but when it comes to work, it’s about being the most effective/efficient.

      • laverabe@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        One option that doesn’t require any commitment is to just make a bootable usb drive that you can run to ‘test drive’ Linux. Ubuntu is probably the easiest for beginners to learn since there is so many forums online to look at when you have issues.