For nearly one month now I am working on switching from MacOS to linux desktop and after experimenting a lot, the switch is pretty near. I'm using a Lenovo T46

For nearly one month now I am working on switching from MacOS to linux desktop and after experimenting a lot, the switch is pretty near. I'm using a Lenovo T460s WQHD, and the most important advice I could give you: - First try with a VM is ok, but if you really plan to switch, try on REAL HARDWARE - most of the issues I had was not using hardware with Linux support (e.g. Wifi) - Don't try to "rebuild" MacOS or Windows - change the mindset to linux - Plan a huge amount of time (weeks) for getting a neat set up and try at least for 4 Weeks, before you give up - Make a list of what are really MUST have features at the end and keep it as short as possible - Understand at least the fundamentals of the boot process, the X Server, Desktop Environments/Window Managers/Display Managers, Terminal / Shell / TTY - Don't switch distro too early - if something does not work, try to stick to your choice and fix the problems For everyone who's interested, I ended up using Artix Linux (Arch, no systemd) with encrypted ZFS on boot and KDE as desktop environment, and I'm pretty happy so far. Resources I recommend are: https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/blob/91d28894a74a19f1a528227925ceb5ff45dc236a/docs/Getting%20Started/Arch%20Linux/Artix%20Linux%20Root%20on%20ZFS.rst https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/blob/91d28894a74a19f... https://int3ractive.com/blog/2018/make-the-best-of-macbook-touchpad-on-ubuntu/ https://int3ractive.com/blog/2018/make-the-best-of-macbook-t... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exQh0_JKBJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exQh0_JKBJQ https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA