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I've been using MacOSX as my primary desktop since the days of Rhapsody. But I always had Linux virtual machines running on occasions. A dwindling number of machines at home were running Linux, most notably a couple of Raspberry Pi and a Synology Diskstation. And when I installed Linux, I usually went for Ubuntu, which did a good job polishing the user experience. The build ring for Tao3D includes a number of virtual machines running several major distros for testing purpose, but it's been quite inactive for a while, and repairing it is on my short-term to-do list.
Working for Red Hat, I thought I had to use Fedora as my primary desktop. And the experience has been a bit underwhelming so far, unfortunately. In just three days, I managed to render a Mac Book Pro unbootable in OSX, had several different issues with skippy or laggy mouse cursors and even non-responsive keyboards, had a driver crash attempting to access my home Wi-Fi, found out the hard way that NFS performance is just horrible, and had to use Google for trivial things way too often.
I complained several times on this blog about what I perceived as a degradation of OSX software quality since 10.6, but this experience with Linux puts all this in some serious perspective.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @04:03PM
I just bought a Thinkpad x260 (Christmas sale, and all) and put Devuan on it. Only thing that didn't work right from the start was the wireless, which required a driver blob download, and I expected that going in since, you know, I actually did the research before buying.
Linux isn't the best choice for laptops, since there's too much proprietary bullshit, especially in the wirelesss/bluetooth realms, so you do need to do some research first. Mac is one of the worst for that kind of thing, so I'm not surprised he had problems, it seems to be what he was after so he could have his story. He wouldn't have had any better luck trying to install WIndows 10 on it.