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 glad your path to linux was less volatile than mine, I ran away from windows becouse my computer would not stop blue screening even after I re installed the OS, Funny thing is it works just fine on linux and I've had no issues