I have used Linux on and off since 1997. A few weeks ago I decided to try Linux on a laptop for the first time in a very long time, having only used Linux for cloud servers for many years. I may have picked a bad device for it, a Surface Studio laptop. Initially, I was surprised how much stuff just worked, the high-res display, the wifi, etc. The touchpad didn't work. I mucked around for a few hours and got it to work "OK". The computer would go to sleep, and I couldn't wake it up without hard-booting it. I downloaded a new kernel (linux-surface), which partially, but not entirely fixed the problem. When I plug in a totally normal USB mouse, the cursor moves in a way that is more erratic than either my macOS or windows machines. I haven't figured out a solution.
It doesn't feel like the year of the Linux desktop for me unfortunately. You can get an M1 macbook air for like $400 right now. It's a pretty hard sell.
