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The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be

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Re: The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be

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Unfortunately, it comes installed with Windows. edit: of course it runs Windows. It also comes pre-installed with it.

FTA:

Most people that I showed the Surface to were impressed by what they saw, but almost always came back to the same thing: it doesn’t run macOS.

I’m increasingly frustrated by this because it’s almost always a misunderstanding of how far Windows 10 has come, and how compatible the workflow now is regardless of what you might do for a job. I suspect most people haven't touched Windows since years ago and it's time for a serious second look if so.

I’ve written about web development on Windows 10 before, but even since a year ago it’s come such a long way. The Bash on Windows environment is now so performant and well supported that you won’t even know the difference if you move from a MacBook, and Microsoft continues to improve it at an impressive clip.

Unless you’re using Xcode, your workflow will almost certainly move from macOS to Windows as a non-event: it’s that good now, and I spend most of my time living in the Bash environment without any problems — even with complicated situations like Symlinks inside Bash now actually working fully.

Re: The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be

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Has anyone managed to get Linux booted on this thing and working well? I've been debating purchasing one, but I am afraid that I'll be stuck with Windows, which, for what I work on, makes hacking pretty difficult.

EDIT: Just as a note, I know about WSL (I use it at work), but I would greatly prefer to have Linux working on root. I have a lot of custom systemd setups, and I've become somewhat dependent on XMonad.

Re: The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be

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Unfortunately, it comes installed with Windows. edit: of course it runs Windows. It also comes pre-installed with it.

Unfortunately, it runs Windows.

Not a problem anymore

https://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/wsl-is-a-game-cha...

I say it every time it comes up, because it’s true, Surface is what Macbooks and iMacs should have been, perhaps would have if Jobs were still around

Re: The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be

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The Surface Book also runs something I never want to deal with again: Windows 10.

I can't deal with a software that constantly gets in the way of my work. I gave Windows a lot of tries, but the latest edition was the last straw for me. Never going back.

Re: The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be

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Unfortunately, it comes installed with Windows. edit: of course it runs Windows. It also comes pre-installed with it.

FTA: Most people that I showed the Surface to were impressed by what they saw, but almost always came back to the same thing: it doesn’t run macOS. I’m increasingly frustrated by this because it’s almost always a misunderstanding of how far Windows 10 has come, and how compatible the workflow now is regardless of what you might do for a job. I suspect most people haven't touched Windows since years ago and it's time…

Maybe, but this is the kind of thing you can't test until you own one and use it every day for a couple of months. There are dozens of command line tools I rely on; any of them breaking is a deal breaker, even the ones I only use a couple of times a month.

Re: The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be

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Such articles always give too much importance to the hardware (which is somewhat important, no doubt) and not enough importance to the software. Many people are looking for quality alternatives to Macbooks, Mac Mini, etc (myself included). Mac Mini hasn’t been updated for 4-5 years. So, I started setting up a Windows desktop as a Mac Mini replacement. But when it came to finding all the alternatives to the OS X softw…

Configuring software is hard, especially with google available.

Re: The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be

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Such articles always give too much importance to the hardware (which is somewhat important, no doubt) and not enough importance to the software. Many people are looking for quality alternatives to Macbooks, Mac Mini, etc (myself included). Mac Mini hasn’t been updated for 4-5 years. So, I started setting up a Windows desktop as a Mac Mini replacement. But when it came to finding all the alternatives to the OS X softw…

Windows 10 is really annoying. Tons of notifications and random stuff preinstalled. Even on the Enterprise version. I also don't like the Edge/IE split. Now we have two half baked browsers.

And on my HP blue screens are back. I thought that was a thing of the past.

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