Writing this from a Lenovo X1 running Linux...
The keyboard is great so if you do a lot of writing (e.g. you are a developer) this is a very good machine. But if you are doing other stuff then maybe this is not the machine for you.
With that said, checkout darktable (http://www.darktable.org/ ) which was discussed a few days ago on HN.
Re:ThinkPad X1 Carbon
by desireco42 on Saturday December 31, 2016 @10:20PM
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Thank you. It is good but can't replace Lightroom. However, there are ways to go around it and I am thinking it through. I can leave one Mac or do dual boot for Win for Lightroom and few games I can't have on Linux.
Again, thank you for reference.
I am using 5 yr old Macbook Air for development, it works well. I always imagined that I will use ThinkPad /w some Linux distribution in future. It is not trivial to use Linux on your laptop. While a lot of things will be faster, browser most likely will be slower and there will not be as many tools. What I would mostly miss is photography tools, Lightroom is essential for processing photos. I can't not do it.
Let me add one more thing to this fairly random post :). I think X1 is better then Macbooks and Airs at the moment, docking station makes a lot of difference.