I've used multiple linux distro's in the early 2000's but found myself going back to macOS for the last 15 years.

Recently my macbook pro crashed and I decided to ditch big tech and bought a refurbished Lenovo X1 Carbon gen 8 (i5, 16 GB ram, 256 GB disk) for 300 euros (without VAT) & installed Ubuntu 24 LTS

I must say I am so surprised with how polished the OS feels, the fingerprint reader, the screenshots, emojis, the battery life of my Bluetooth headphones, hibernating correctly, pluging in a printer that just works ... its in the little things ...

It has really become something that I can hand over to my mom now and be confident that she will not bump into one issue after the other. Hats of to all devs involved that made this happen!