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On the desktop, I've had an extremely positive experience using Ubuntu for the past few years. Honestly, at this point I find it easily a better desktop experi
by oddity 8y ago
On the desktop, I've had an extremely positive experience using Ubuntu for the past few years. Honestly, at this point I find it easily a better desktop experience than Windows or macOS. However, I've so far stuck to macOS for my laptops and iOS for my other devices mostly because I tend to need more reliability for these (and a bit of my own bias).
With how toy-ified iOS is and the progressively worse state (imo) of macOS-running hardware, I've started considering other options more seriously. Are there any tablet PCs that work well with Ubuntu?
- VonGuard 8y agoI'm in a similar place, with Mint on a desktop and laptop for some time now. The real issue is never on the desktop: it always runs fine. However, the laptop seems to have developed driver issues over time, to the point where the trackpad requires special care and feeding... The little nooks and crannies of laptop drivers remain the single reason I think Linux is so hard to get right on laptops. The successful users I know all have Thinkpads.
- lykr0n 8y agoLinux is the OS I need to reinstall every few months. It's like where Windows was during 7. I think a big reason is that if version 0.1.0 installs a config file, version 0.9.3 won't override it- even if it has better defaults.
- dbetteridge 8y agoI've found the surface book + https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface To work quite nicely, battery life is decent (6-8 hours with coding and web browsing usage). I'd think the Surface Pro would be similar.