In 2012 I switched from a 2010 MBP 13" to a Thinkpad T410 running linux for personal use and haven't looked back. I distro hopped for a while (Ubuntu, OpenSUSE,

In 2012 I switched from a 2010 MBP 13" to a Thinkpad T410 running linux for personal use and haven't looked back. I distro hopped for a while (Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, CrunchBang, Debian and Arch) before settling on Fedora. I'm seeing quite a few complaints about usability issues in Linux. I think that's fair for the most part, but as a counterpoint, I've had very few issues and these days it seems like most things just work. Fedora is not perfect out of the box, but it's pretty easy to fix. 1. Install Fedy (folkswithhats.org), provides one click installs for pretty much every application I use that isn't in the fedora repos. It also has a script that improves the font rendering. 2. Install Gnome Tweak Tool, I wish this was included by default. It makes it easy to change themes, keybinds, etc. 3. Install a decent looking theme (I use Arc). IMHO at this point the UI looks far better than my wife's Macbook Air and is significantly more usable (of course that's coming from a long time gnome user). At that point I'm pretty much done. You no longer need to install TLP or powertop to get good battery life. I can't remember the last time I had a kernel panic (while my Windows 7 machine at work BSOD'd this morning). I vastly prefer the trackpoint on my thinkpad to any touchpad I've used (although my old MBP had the best touchpad I've ever used). As a bonus I spend lots of time at work logged into a redhat server, so having the same CLI on my personal machine is great. Another point is that you can activate a Windows 10 VM using the OEM key. I keep a Windows VM installed just in case, but I seldom use it. I will say that I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on a T480 and am going to stick with the 1080p display because I've heard horror stories about scaling in linux.