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Personally i think it's great but software!
Software is my main issue.
I need software such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Yea, there are alternatives but it's hard to work with them after using Adobe so much.
Other issues like Akshit Garg mentioned is inconsistent theming, flaky driver support and many distros look outdated(i am a windows user and it looks modern to me).
The distro i am eyeing for when i finally leave Windows is Garuda or Manjaro or Deepin.
Let's be honest. With ATI/AMD graphics cards multi-monitor, HiDPI setup, scaling, compositing, desktop effects work all just great out of the box.
Who do you think fault it is? No wonder Linus shows middle finger to those companies...
Re: People having a hard-time finding MacBook Pro -esque hardware to run Linux on. I've got a suggestion - the Huawei Matebook X Pro
I've been running Arch on a Huawei Matebook X Pro for about a year or two now and man do I love this laptop.
I have the 2018 version - but its got many things going for it:
It is not cheap, I paid ~1.800 EUR for mine back then, but I still recommend it to anyone I can nowadays.
I was using linux for many years on different laptops, but corporations seem to have no clue to support linux for their employees. I was simply curious about the Apple platform and did not understand user happiness with it given the pricing. So more than year ago I gave it a shot, bought MacBook pro, iPhone and watch (so effectively changed the platform).
I have no complaints, machine boots up rather quickly (I used to mock colleagues with windows about this - linux was even faster) .... but as windows and linux it starts with just OS and maybe some applications in autostart. On mac, my previously open applications starts in state i left them. Cooperation with phone and watch is just great, so handover is making me smile even after more that a yer of usage.
Then there is one burden on both linux and windows - updates - too often - too interrupting. Many times it ends up needed to reload some parts - a breeze on linux unless you update kernel or drivers- and full reboot on windows.
With mac i have occasionally some update and if it happens, my machine will return to the state i was working on previously.
And all parts are working. No troubleshooting of drivers or what-else.
I still love linux, and we are all blessed with homebrew to bring many tools to mac easily. As daily driver, i feel i can depend on my mac machine more than a on linux as it does not need constant tweaking and babysitting for various things.
Do overall if you can afford to get mac, you will probably enjoy more time working than troubleshooting and updating. I personally decided to let apple take care of machine and focus on using it to create things i need or love.
And the ecosystem issue with closed system is blurred with homebrew. The handover between mac and phone is a bliss also using airpods between the two is like everyone should be allowed smooth transitions. It is simply a good choice, not picking up on small issues, and focus. I have spent a lot of time troubleshooting linux and missing the precious time elsewhere. For me after 20 years in IT, time is most important thing you have, split it wisely.
I use to run a linux server at home and another on my universities network back around 2013-2015 but stopped because the time I was spending maintaining them outweighed the benefits they gave me, and services have come up that provide me what I want without needing to do that maintenance work. One of the big services that stopped me from running my own server is Discord, as several of the IRC chatrooms I was in now have discord servers and I no longer have to have an IRC bouncer to receive messages and allow me to connect as the same user from multiple devices.
As a desktop OS, I tried Linux Mint back around 2010, but it didn't play nicely with my tri-screen set up, so I quickly abandoned it. Now I have no need to try linux on my desktop anymore as I have WSL when I need it.
Just left a VM ("longtime Linux user... all of the email clients suck"), but I think I forgot to leave my name. So here I am, @graciegregory
Simple; "the right distro".
I 've been using Linux as a development environment for 18 months or so, purely because I have to for the target tool chain. The choice of distro depends on someone at the tool chain suppliers end, since they only support 3 of the 9 million or so distro out there, so it's a compromise. On numerous occasions, having come from Windows, I'll search for "how to do xxx on Linux" and hear about some wonderful tool, only to find it's only possible to use it on some other bunch of distros I'm not using.
Until this fragmentation issue is sorted out, Linux will remain niche and, where possible, I won't be using it.
Close, but no cigar. Pop!_OS is really good. Gnome is getting better. I daily drove it on a Razer Blade Stealth 13" for over a year, and it was death by (not quite) 1k papercuts. The bugs in gnome, the unstable gnome extensions, and the workarounds for software are what killed it for me. I have access to more tools on Windows and MacOS, WSL2 is wonderful, and M1 macs have put fire back into the laptop game. If I had to use Linux as a desktop OS I could definitely do it, but there is just still more support, apps, and polish in Windows and MacOS.
I've used Linux since 90's, I really feel comfortable working on it. I actually use Manjaro KDE edition, and I don't like get in trouble following Youtube videos about theme customization nor geeky Desktop Environments (DE) like i3 and others. For every task I can't accomplish in Linux, I use Virtual Machines (VM) with Windows, Android or whatever Operative System (OS) I need.