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.
Awesome! I'm one of the guys peer pressuring you in the other thread, and I'm glad to see it worked.
It also just so happened that you went for the same distro that I use on my desktop.
What's going to be the primary use of this laptop other than having linux installed? Any projects or use cases in mind? I'm asking because I found out some time around the turn of the century hat the best way to learn linux is to use it for something one would otherwise do in Windows.
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If you really want your mind blown, try setting up Steam and playing a Windows game.
It doesn't have to be fancy as long as you have a practical use case. And it's worth mentioning that the "fancy" stuff is often easier on linux than on windows.