Ensure you present your arguments in a way that doesnt make your recipient seem like a bad person because of their belief.

Louis Rossmann made a good video on activism and how to get someone to care about something.

Inviduous link: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=cir-gJDcC1o

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cir-gJDcC1o

For my classes, certain ones required Visual Studios, but for the most part, you can just run that in a VM (or use JetBrains substitutes if you can). However, if you’re doing game design or development, a VM might not preform well unless you have a GPU passthrough setup.