I'm a heavy UNIX user and believer. I hate Windows enough to have run it inside a VM on Linux, taking the pains to set up GPU passthrough so I can get graphical acceleration without ceding control of my computer to Microsoft.

But that was on a desktop. And although the Year of the Linux Desktop may very well be upon us, I have to agree with the article.

There is a lot of really powerful, really slim, really convenient hardware that can't easily be used with Linux. I'm planning to buy a laptop soon. It's not going to be a Thinkpad.

Can someone provide a counterpoint to this article, perhaps in the form of a convenient tablet-like machine (like a Surface Pro) that can run Linux without too much hackery? I'm willing to compile kernels if that's what it takes. But I would like for those things to eventually work once I do.