I am on Linux for 26 years. Last 5 years I run PopOs! on my desktop. User friendly and stable, Ubuntu based.
I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
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Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#62Not saying I'm not considering it given the current political climate, but I'm spoiled by my Macbook Air. The Thinkpad I've been issued for work costs about the same, runs hot like crazy, always has fans running, is cheap-feeling plastic, thicker, heavier, garbage touchpad, weird keyboard layout (printscreen right next to the arrow keys, what were they thinking?), mushy keys, barely serviceable display ... what do I…
Nothing is quite as slick as Apple, but companies are popping up doing pretty sleek Linux-first laptops, I have a Starlabs notebook [1] and am waiting for their new Starfighter [2]... [1] https://starlabs.systems/pages/starbook-horizon [2] https://starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter
Batter life claims are very bold.
Also the starfighter launches with a 3 year old CPU .
Doesn't seem to me like a good deal especially price wise.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#63I hope one day to upgrade my laptop to a Honor/Huawei AMD Ryzen AI computer to run Linux. Modern Macbooks unfortunatly do not run Linux and the other laptop manifacturers basically produce expensive trash laptops
Modern MacBooks DO run Linux Check out https://asahilinux.org/
Looking at the support page, that comes with a lot of asterisks still.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#64I thought this was Hacker News! How come dumping Windows for Linux in the year 2026 makes the headlines?
For some reason, there's a huge amount of Hacker News readers who are still full-time Windows users. With the forced migration to Windows 11, I guess a lot of them are now not only trying out Linux for the first time (as a desktop system), but also for some reason going for Arch derivatives, which is always fun to see a beginner mess with LOL
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#65Only thing holding me back is Adobe Lightroom, and has been for a while.
>> Only thing holding me back is Adobe Lightroom.
You might be interested in Darktable or the less common fork called Ansel.
These have Windows versions you can try before moving your world to Linux.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#66Some of the games I am playing only run on Windows. Thats's the biggest obstacle for me to adopt Linux.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#67Try CachyOS, it's based on Arch but with additional optimizations, better defaults, and is user friendly. The problems the author of the article had would not have happened if he spent some time using an user friendly distro before trying a hard distro.
I love Cachy, but please don't recommend it as a reasonable first step into Linux.
It's a lot more polished than Arch, but it's not for someone who hasn't used Linux before and wants a reliably rock solid and predictable experience 365 days a year, with no fiddling.
It's rolling release, and there are inevitably bugs when updating immediately to every minor version of every part of the OS stack. Arch/Cachy/Endeavour are for experts, and those who enjoy tinkering. (If you want to recommend something Arch-flavored, just recommend Manjaro, and don't listen to the memers who parrot some youtuber's list of ancient and silly engagement-bait grievances.)
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#68Not saying I'm not considering it given the current political climate, but I'm spoiled by my Macbook Air. The Thinkpad I've been issued for work costs about the same, runs hot like crazy, always has fans running, is cheap-feeling plastic, thicker, heavier, garbage touchpad, weird keyboard layout (printscreen right next to the arrow keys, what were they thinking?), mushy keys, barely serviceable display ... what do I…
As well as beautiful hardware that is a pleasure to use, Apple machines can be capable of running local models like gpt-oss-20B or Qwen Coder portably and without sweating. My 24GB M4 Mini was very cheap considering the local models it can run.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#69What about computer games such as age of empires ? Can we play regular computer games ?
You can play almost all solo games and most multi-player games depending on anti-cheat Age of empires will be okay.
For reference, you can always check out these websites:
[0]: https://www.protondb.com/explore [1]: https://areweanticheatyet.com/
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#70Not saying I'm not considering it given the current political climate, but I'm spoiled by my Macbook Air. The Thinkpad I've been issued for work costs about the same, runs hot like crazy, always has fans running, is cheap-feeling plastic, thicker, heavier, garbage touchpad, weird keyboard layout (printscreen right next to the arrow keys, what were they thinking?), mushy keys, barely serviceable display ... what do I…
I don't think anyone will build as nice hardware as Apple anytime soon, so I think if that's your primary requirement then any other choice will be a compromise. I don't really like Apple, but it must must acknowledged that even a few basic things (the monitor turning on immediately as I open the screen, the touchpad quality, etc.) seem totally elusive to other manufacturers. Apple's pretty imperfect, and it's sad to…
Some of the stuff coming out of CES is nice. Whether the apparent quality survives in production is another question.