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Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by jtreminio »

slantyyz wrote: post #185
cdnsteve wrote: post #140

Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10? I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant I just feel the tooling for MS isn't in the direction I am. I still have a Windows 7 desktop and it's just not the same.

>> Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10? >> I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant I switched from OSX to Windows last year. I thought I'd miss stuff, but you don't. There are package managers like chocolatey to replace homebrew. I use Cmder as my…

> I use Vagrant on Windows and it works fine.

Not really - there are some big differences to keep in mind.

If your shared folders have symlinks, they won't work within the VM unless you're using Virtualbox's native shared folders, which is dog slow.

Permissions are also messed up if your VM is on an NTFS HDD - all files and all folders will basically be 755/777 within the VM.

There are plenty more tradeoffs.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by dogma1138 »

I'm kinda bummed now that i just bought the MBP 15" with dedicated graphics.

After finally swallowing my pride and getting an apple device MSFT announces this.

I've never been invested in the Apple eco-system and I've spent a week to find comparable software and even after that I'll still be needing to run a windows guest on VMWare Fusion 8.

If Amazon returns will accept it I might actually return it once the UK prices for the Surface Book will be published, the funny thing is that Amazon sold the MBP 15 for 500 GBP less than the apple store, it's almost like they new this will happen.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by WorldWideWayne »

cdnsteve wrote: post #140

Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10? I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant I just feel the tooling for MS isn't in the direction I am. I still have a Windows 7 desktop and it's just not the same.

I'm running Windows 10 with multiple Linux server distros in the background. Hyper-V shuts them down and brings them up with Windows. WinSCP is my file manager and Putty is my terminal.

I prefer this over OS X on Apple hardware because I can get the exact Unix experience that I want without having to fight with Apple about who is in control of the machine. Perhaps more importantly, I get the desktop experience that I love, which is Windows.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by Someone1234 »

elipsey wrote: post #194
arel wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a developer my first question would be: Can I dual boot linux on it? If so it would be an extremely attractive developer machine and switch to Windows when you need it. The hardware is the show stealer here.

This. Is the bootloader locked? So far I have mixed feelings about tablets. I like the "tablet" part but not the "it is cryptographically sercured from doing anything that might upset a government, corporation, or business model" part.

The Surface Pro 3 you could. Just had to disable Secure Boot for setup, boot from a USB stick, and after installation you could re-enable it (assuming you had a Linux distribution that supports Secure Boot signing).

Obviously nobody outside of Microsoft will know if that remains true with the Surface Pro 4.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by elipsey »

elif wrote: post #201
arel wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a developer my first question would be: Can I dual boot linux on it? If so it would be an extremely attractive developer machine and switch to Windows when you need it. The hardware is the show stealer here.

yes. I run ubuntu on my surface pro. Everything works well, with reasonably good battery life (not as good as win10, obviously). it is a painful install process, but that should change completely with ubuntu 15.10

Why painful? Can you desable secureboot, but UEFI on Ubuntu is still sucky?

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by bkjelden »

slantyyz wrote: post #185
cdnsteve wrote: post #140

Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10? I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant I just feel the tooling for MS isn't in the direction I am. I still have a Windows 7 desktop and it's just not the same.

>> Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10? >> I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant I switched from OSX to Windows last year. I thought I'd miss stuff, but you don't. There are package managers like chocolatey to replace homebrew. I use Cmder as my…

> I use Cmder as my terminal and it works a lot like Mac's terminal

What advantages does this provide over the Windows 10 terminal? Windows 10 fixed all of my biggest gripes with cmd.exe

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