Last time I used Windows as my OS was Windows 2000. I went through multiple things (BeOS, Suse Linux (I think before opensuse), rhl, FreeBSD, ubuntu…) until I landed on MacOS.
But all the bullshit Apple did to unify tablets with laptops and their lack of thorough with git, opengl, etc… and all their problems with package distributions and their “appstore” made me switch back to Linux.
I searched for the most Linux friendly laptop on the market and bought a Thinkpad X1 Carbon.
Then spent the first month trying making my microphone work or my audio not crack by learning a ton of Alsa/Pulseaudio.
IMO Linux works well when you ace the hardware choice.
I thought Thinkpads work perfectly with Linux. I bought a pretty new Laptop from HP and it worked fine out of the box. Only issues were the battery life, which I fixed by installing auto-cpufreq (seems to work better than tlp), the fingerprint scanner because it uses a proprietary system instead of doing it the standart way and it doesn’t detect when I turn around the display (it’s one of those you can use like a tablet) even though it does deactivate the keyboard when I do that. Everything else works perfectly fine.
The last line is the condition to making linux work. Like hackintochs, its very hardware specific, and switching over to linux means an average user has to make concessions.
E.g for nvidia users, they have to conceed that some of their features normally available to them on windows will not work on linux, and get inferior driver support.
Last time I used Windows as my OS was Windows 2000. I went through multiple things (BeOS, Suse Linux (I think before opensuse), rhl, FreeBSD, ubuntu…) until I landed on MacOS.
But all the bullshit Apple did to unify tablets with laptops and their lack of thorough with git, opengl, etc… and all their problems with package distributions and their “appstore” made me switch back to Linux.
I searched for the most Linux friendly laptop on the market and bought a Thinkpad X1 Carbon.
Then spent the first month trying making my microphone work or my audio not crack by learning a ton of Alsa/Pulseaudio.
IMO Linux works well when you ace the hardware choice.
I thought Thinkpads work perfectly with Linux. I bought a pretty new Laptop from HP and it worked fine out of the box. Only issues were the battery life, which I fixed by installing auto-cpufreq (seems to work better than tlp), the fingerprint scanner because it uses a proprietary system instead of doing it the standart way and it doesn’t detect when I turn around the display (it’s one of those you can use like a tablet) even though it does deactivate the keyboard when I do that. Everything else works perfectly fine.
The last line is the condition to making linux work. Like hackintochs, its very hardware specific, and switching over to linux means an average user has to make concessions.
E.g for nvidia users, they have to conceed that some of their features normally available to them on windows will not work on linux, and get inferior driver support.