I had the chance to try out Ubuntu after getting a new laptop about 3 weeks ago. I initially started with dual booting Ubuntu 20.04 with Windows 10. I had it for about 3 days before trying Manjaro instead. I think the issues I had with non smooth scrolling bugged me an awful lot (I came from using a Mac where this was never an issue). After that I switched to Manjaro before finally trying PopOS. I really liked it and had it installed for about 2 weeks before I went back to Windows 10, which I plan on sticking with.
My biggest issues were problems with battery life (2hrs on PopOS vs about 5 on Windows), smooth scrolling in VSCode and Firefox (everything felt quite slow and jittery), Bluetooth headphone issues with my airpods (sound was very quiet) and finally a vsync issue that I couldn't unsee and wouldn't go away even after 2 days of googling for a solution and tweaking a number of config files.
I was confident going into it that Linux would be great for me. I'm a PHP and Node Developer and having had a mac for the past 7 years I feel more confident with terminal. I really have respect for and understand people that want that extra level of customisation not found in other OS'. The fact that you can just jump in and change how absolutely everything works is a great strength. For me personally though those small remaining issues bugged me too much and used up way too much of my time, when I just wanted to jump in and start developing.
I'm actually getting by fine with using WSL on Windows 10 at the moment, I may however come across issues in the future that might change my mind.
When I'm next due for a hardware upgrade though (or WSL isn't cutting it for me), I'll definitely try a few different flavours of Linux again!
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I had the chance to try out Ubuntu after getting a new laptop about 3 weeks ago. I initially started with dual booting Ubuntu 20.04 with Windows 10. I had it for about 3 days before trying Manjaro instead. I think the issues I had with non smooth scrolling bugged me an awful lot (I came from using a Mac where this was never an issue). After that I switched to Manjaro before finally trying PopOS. I really liked it and had it installed for about 2 weeks before I went back to Windows 10, which I plan on sticking with.
My biggest issues were problems with battery life (2hrs on PopOS vs about 5 on Windows), smooth scrolling in VSCode and Firefox (everything felt quite slow and jittery), Bluetooth headphone issues with my airpods (sound was very quiet) and finally a vsync issue that I couldn't unsee and wouldn't go away even after 2 days of googling for a solution and tweaking a number of config files.
I was confident going into it that Linux would be great for me. I'm a PHP and Node Developer and having had a mac for the past 7 years I feel more confident with terminal. I really have respect for and understand people that want that extra level of customisation not found in other OS'. The fact that you can just jump in and change how absolutely everything works is a great strength. For me personally though those small remaining issues bugged me too much and used up way too much of my time, when I just wanted to jump in and start developing.
I'm actually getting by fine with using WSL on Windows 10 at the moment, I may however come across issues in the future that might change my mind.
When I'm next due for a hardware upgrade though (or WSL isn't cutting it for me), I'll definitely try a few different flavours of Linux again!