> a proper experience to anyone that cares about graphics programming and usable UI/UX tooling. I suppose the only answers here are qt or game engines like god

> a proper experience to anyone that cares about graphics programming and usable UI/UX tooling. I suppose the only answers here are qt or game engines like godot/heaps.io etc - and they probably aren't as good as windows. But it's a little tricky to know exactly what you mean. > When my Asus Netbook dies (1215B with XUbuntu), the next UNIX travel laptop will be an Air. > So you can spare the talk about how much GNU/Linux has progressed, since I see it every time I take that netbook into use. If you're looking for a "windows desktop replacement", you should probably compare it to one of the "big" desktop projects - ie: Ubuntu standard desktop (not a spin, like xubuntu), Red Hat or SuSe. It's also not clear which version of xubuntu you're running - 20.04 lts? Personally I think 20.04 with Wayland and pipewire has made great strides as a "just works" Desktop - and I'm looking forward to the next lts (pipewire baked in, hopefully). That said, I doubt much will beat an m1 Mac in the near future, if you're happy with apple/macos.