Convinced a friend of mine to start dual booting Linux Mint on his gaming PC in the near future, for non-privacy reasons (and also non-coding reasons, for that matter).
Story:
A few days ago he gave me his laptop for temporary use. As I was using it I felt the urge to give him a tour of what Linux desktops look like on this device, because I am very enthusiastic about Linux desktops, and hoping it would catch on to him as well. Well, he agreed as long as it didnāt touch his windows 10 installation and it was reasonably quick, and so I used Ventoy to turn a USB stick into a multi-boot one, so I could boot up a few distros in quick succession.
Out of the 4 distros I showed him (Linux Mint, Manjaro KDE, Fedora Workstation and Ubuntu) he liked Linux Mint (which has the cinnamon desktop) the most. Iām really glad he liked it because I know heās one of those people who are actively avoiding Windows 11 as long as they can (probably until Microsoft gives them the final warning), even though their hardware is āallowedā. He told me he fears the bloat and the UI choices, which is understandable.
Sidenote: I bet there are a lot of others like him that are sitting on the edge of switching to Linux, but are still unsure probably because they havenāt seen the actual desktop experience with their own eyes on their own machine. Currently he only has plans to use it for gaming, but I canāt imagine he wonāt expand to other areas once he is on āthe other sideā, if you know what I mean 
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Side-side-note: he also just despises Windows in general, so that helps a bit too lol