I use Linux exclusively on my desktop and have had a bunch of laptops over the years with Linux installed (mainly Debian based). It's never been quite pleasant

I use Linux exclusively on my desktop and have had a bunch of laptops over the years with Linux installed (mainly Debian based). It's never been quite pleasant though. I work primarily off my desktop so I wouldn't mind it that much but it was never good enough for me to be happy when roaming. I recently got a Macbook Air (the new 2013 one) and it's working out pretty well. Rather than deal with a desktop Linux OS I've got everything running in VMs and either work through them or cloud based remote servers. For casual computer use (web browsing, email, etc) I use native apps. For software dev I use a combination of SSH to VMs/remote servers and native text editors accessing shared filesystems (mainly sshfs). I still much prefer my desktop (a real keyboard is always way better) but at this point my laptop is tolerable enough that I can roam around and actually get work done.