No their not. There is just a lot of buzz around them and ads shouted by big podcasters but they are not so good. They are just re branded Chinese laptops with Linux distros slapped on in. The build quality is poor (plastics, poor touchpads, screens, batteries) and they don't keep their value pretty well. If you want Linux laptop you should really look in to something like Lenovo Thinkpad series or Dell XPS.