I’ve had laptops with linux before, but linux was never the original laptop OS and modifying the configuration was always necessary. It used to be fun to hack and modify an OS on an old laptop but I guess if I’m going to spend 600 or 700 bucks (or more!) I’d rather not have to worry about modifications.
One of my worries is that in the past I’ve experienced bad or terrible changes to battery life/performance after installing linux. I’m guessing that that won’t be the case with a linux native laptop? Any experience… (dell, system76,…)? I remember trying to fix this in various ways that the internet had suggested but it never came out as I wanted.
My other worry is the keyboard and shortcuts. I’ve been using a mac at work which in my experience has a fairly different keyboard short cuts, is that still the case? (is this distro dependent?) I remember always having to modify cut and paste for terminals to match the browser’s cut and paste short cuts in ubuntu. This always seemed silly. Again not sure if I want to do this if I’m shelling out a significant amount of money.
Any advice or stories about going from a mac-unix-ish setup to a pure linux setup?
Should I stop trying and stick with macs?
For what it is worth, I have a purism 15 inch. For the most part I really like the laptop. The near 0 branding is great and I have 32 gigs of ram which is great as I do a lot of data intensive dev work. However; the hinge broke on the laptop within 6 months of light use which was extremely disappointing. I was able to repair the hinge with a good amount of effort but I probably wont buy another if this one dies. Obviously just a single exp. so take it with a grain of salt. On the good side, the hardware switches are great and the already mentioned ram is nice.