Linux AND meditation? Not both at the same time, surely?

Yep, at the end of the day it's about using the best available tool for what you want to do

I'm with you on two out of three, but I respect your choice to be a vegan. When you say no Photoshop, you're right - but there are acceptable tools available that can read and write PSD files; and there are some decent graphics tools. The learning curve is easier with more derived OSes like Mint, Kali, or PopOS.

While they might find themselves running command line stuff sometimes, I think anyone who's looking at moving to Linux from Windows should have a vague knowledge of a command prompt or Powershell. If they don't, that's actually where I'd start - teach them the uncomfortable thing (command line) in a comfortable setting (Windows). Have them install from winget, chocolatey, or something like that. Teach them to set up a virtual machine. If they can do those two things, they're 90% of the way to daily-driving Linux.

"Libs hate Linux Mint"

"Nazis hate Fedora"

Now all your bases are covered. Now we can put aside political ideology and fight about the real issues...... the distro wars.

I don't know what that means and frankly I think that's a blessing.

League of Legends is a popular game that has a reputation for having toxic players, as well as requiring kernel-level anti-cheat, which is intrusive and so disliked here, and also does not work on Linux.

Thus, by switching to Linux, you can avoid the unwanted chance of playing League of Legends.

it means league of legends blocks itself from being installed on linux

Interesting choice of instance in that case.

Many developers use Linux, so Jetbrains makes sure all their IDEs work on it.

I'm pretty sure in general there are more development tools that don't work on windows (or only work through WSL, which is Linux), than development tools that don't work on Linux.

I have used JetBrains software for years on Linux with no issues.

Mostly used IntelliJ, but they all seem to be built on a common base so I think it should be no problems.

Try in a VM!

Have you tried posting in the Linux community and having them tell you that it's your fault for closing the laptop in the first place, it's clearly that's an insane thing that no human should ever be doing?

It will run all your weird ass indie games.

protondb.com to check if it runs your weird ass indie games.

https://lvra.gitlab.io/

Monado + WiVRn is what I use, when using ny quest while traveling. Works reasonably well :)

Might need to swap the compositor between Xrizer (default now) and OpenComposite for some games or functionality.