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I've successfully followed a modified version of this guide's steps to install Ubuntu to a bootable USB drive and am very satisfied with it.
After a decade on MacBooks, I've just gone the same route as the author. Ubuntu on an X1 Carbon 4th gen. After moving to 16.10, the only thing that doesn't work is the fingerprint reader. I also buy the systems for most of the developers in my company (we do pfSense), and they're also going to be asked to consider the same solution on future upgrades.
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Could you comment on your battery life experience / any heating issues?
Previous generation X1. Easily getting 6h of scripting. (As in, no heavy compiler or processing needed) Slightly warm, but no issues with heat.
Dtrace? systemtap is not close to dtrace performance and ease of use. I'd rather switch to freebsd or dragonfly than back to linux.
Elementary OS is very similar to Mac OS in terms of UI. Of course the project is rather new, but is very promising. The desktop environment (Pantheon) is installable in Ubuntu, though. Once in a while you might end up with a messed up situation that might require some effort to fix.
It's trying really hard to imitate Apple – they even have these "Human Interface Guidelines" somewhere that read like some sort of Apple parody. In reality it's a fake, thin veneer of a user interface bolted onto a generic Linux distribution. Apple software may have their own faults. I think most of the whining is just boredom, but iTunes for example is definitely not the pinnacle of UI. But the beauty of macOS has always been in getting some things exactly right with the competence and attention of a master craftsman/woman. I'd name text rendering as an example, or sleep.
Elementary OS is made by people who think wearing a turtleneck makes them Steve Jobs, but they just don't get that you also have to throw a prototype or two at your CXOs from time to time :)
I don't think Linux on the desktop will benefit from such cloning. Just look at Open Office: a UI that perpetually felt four years out of date that probably took five times as many hours of work as the google docs that actually made Office unnecessary.
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You can virtualize or dual-boot if your photography workflow is anything like mine (mostly huge, batch-oriented). You can even use eg. VMWare unity mode to right-click to open in Lightroom in a virtualized windows or OSX instance. Performance won't be perfect but it's definitely good enough. Less so for video editing. Personally the bigger irritation has been printer drivers. I have a Canon Pixma Pro 1 which has no d…
Printing is perfectly fine with Epson printers.
For the most part all software/hardware combinations are pretty solid for a majority of users. Those that required very specific things - obviously not. Hell I'm a developer and switched to Chromebooks since I only need a browser and ssh. Everyone should always be out there looking at other stuff - chances are you can discover something new or even better than what you thought possible.
This is a great point. I bought Dell's first Ubuntu laptop offering back in '07 or '08, and am still thankful I did to this day, even though the machine has long since retired. Back then the MacBook Pro was a very solid offering, and a Linux laptop was almost a joke. But I still have Youtube video tutorials I recorded from that laptop, it was a great machine and your point is as true now as it was then. Try it out, don't just sit there ignorantly whinging, is my version. :-)