Ask HN: How did you transition from Mac to Linux?
I&#x27;ve tried, but here are the issues I&#x27;ve run into. I&#x27;m not a Linux hater, but these are simple things there doesn&#x27;t seem to be a fix for. This is on a new Dell XPS laptop.<p>- Headphones constantly crackle when they&#x27;re plugged in. I&#x27;ve tried updating audio drivers, enabling&#x2F;disabling various things, editing config files, etc. nothing fixes it. I&#x27;ve gotten used to listening to music with a crackle superimposed on top.<p>- Screen randomly flickers<p>- The trackpad interface is nothing short of _atrocious_. If you move around it too much it &quot;locks up&quot; the cursor and you can&#x27;t move anymore, you have to click it several times while dragging until it starts working again. If you brush it with a single atom of your finger as you&#x27;re typing, the cursor will move around wildly, often selecting most of the text you&#x27;ve typed and overwriting it with your next character. I&#x27;ve also tried updating&#x2F;changing&#x2F;etc libinput and it doesn&#x27;t do anything.<p>- In an attempt to fix the above issues, I tried to update to Ubuntu 18.04 (it was on the latest 16.04). `do-release-upgrade` wouldn&#x27;t recognize there was a new version available (this was a few days ago). I did `do-release-upgrade -d` without realizing it was a dev version, then after a few minutes of reading I realized it was, so I cancelled it, and rebooted my computer. Now, it just boots to a cursor on a black 
screen and it never changes. At this point I just decided to start using my Macbook again until I get un-frustrated enough to figure out what to do with the Dell.