I decided to try switching to a linux laptop (x1 carbon) recently for many of the same reasons listed in OP's article. Though my employer maintains a reasonably

I decided to try switching to a linux laptop (x1 carbon) recently for many of the same reasons listed in OP's article. Though my employer maintains a reasonably well polished flavor of debian, so I haven't had to deal with the slew of driver-related annoyances that usually come with trying to run linux on a laptop. So far so good. + keyboard is great + after getting used to the trackpoint, I like it + matte screen + working in a dev environment that matches your production environment is presumably useful, particularly when working with docker. + first class package manager + noticeably lighter - UI isn't as slick. maybe one day I'll try a WM. i3 or something. - occasional driver issues