Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?
Where do I even begin.<p>1. Lack of good mobile hardware. ThinkPads used to be good, but sadly more than a decade ago they switched to 16:9 screens. Macbooks were 16:10. This was and still is an absolute dealbreaker for me. Fortunately, ThinkPads started bringing 16:10 back (but see below). There were a few non-16:9 PC laptops on the market, like the Microsoft Surface or some Dell XPS models. Absolute junk.<p>2. Even though we started to have 16:10 ThinkPads again, it doesn&#x27;t matter, because Linux doesn&#x27;t support non-integer display scaling factors well and these new screens come with dumb resolutions that would require a non-integer scaling factor. And the screens are crap compared to macBook screens still.<p>3. AMD ThinkPads only have crappy screens compared to their Intel counterparts. There exist Intel ThinkPads with Intel (non-Nvidia) GPUs that I would consider for buying, but they are unobtainium. They are either only sold to select countries, or require some kind of commercial agreement to buy.<p>4. When I used unix systems in the 90s and early 2000s the unix GUIs were <i>better</i> than the commercial counterparts. Now this situation is reversed. Gnome 3 is 10 years old now and I still have no idea how it works.<p>5. I used to use unusual window managers like fvwm and windowmaker. As things have become more and more integrated with the GUI, and as &quot;popular&quot; distributions like Ubuntu have taken the responsability of integrating everything in the GUI, it has become unfeasible for me to do the integration myself, so I&#x27;m stuck with crap software like Gnome 3, which I do not want.<p>6. RawTherapee and Darktable are usability nightmares compared to Capture One. Plus, what would I do with my C1 sessions anyway?<p>7. I use an iPhone and make heavy use of the integration between iOS and macOS. Specifically things like iMessages, Photos.app and Facetime. I can&#x27;t do any of that on Linux.<p>8. Ubuntu is doing things I don&#x27;t want (e.g. Snap) while Debian refuses to package useful software. if you think that niche Linux distributions like NixOS solve anything you are part of the problem.<p>People like to talk about &quot;year of the Linux desktop&quot;, but I&#x27;ve been using Linux on the desktop in the 90s, and let me tell you it&#x27;s been only downhill since.