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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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Post by millstone »

KirinDave wrote: post #253
andrei_says_ wrote: post #190

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Not spying on me and not transmitting unknown to me personal information to unknown parties would be a killer feature. I treat any windows machine as if it has a keylogger and submits all my activity to all major governments (maybe only one today and “all” in a few years when my data gets sold, shared or stolen). This is a serious issue for me.

> I treat any windows machine as if it has a keylogger and submits all my activity to all major governments (maybe only one today and “all” in a few years when my data gets sold, shared or stolen). Why is Apple's OSX, which exhibits a lot of the same behavior with spotlight, exempt from this concern? Don't get me wrong, I don't like these as-you-type-send-it-up search interfaces. But if we're gonna call companies on…

Apple deserves the same scrutiny, but Spotlight Suggestions is designed for privacy. It uses randomly generated frequently rotated IDs and is easy to disable.

Disabling Windows 10 telemetry is difficult and cannot be done via user settings. Microsoft has also been adding telemetry to other products such as VSCode and .NET Core.

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

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Post by jdmichal »

ufmace wrote: post #247
mettamage wrote: post #208

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How about stuff like defragmentation, Windows registry issues, malware, adware and all the other stuff I vaguely remember? 10 years ago, I used to be a power user at Windows before that (as a gamer/kid) but really though I forgot what time I needed to put into the laptop just to keep it up to performance.

Have you not used a Windows computer in 10+ years? > defragmentation No longer an issue. I'm honestly not up to date on why not, but nobody ever mentions it anymore. > Windows registry issues What issues? I haven't gone into the registry for anything in a long time. > malware, adware Not an issue as long as you run a modern browser and avoid going to sketchy websites and installing random things from them. If you hav…

Windows Vista started running defragmentation as a background process nightly. Then SSDs happened.

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

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Post by Xeoncross »

SirensOfTitan wrote: post #272
Xeoncross wrote: post #197

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mosh doesn't support port forwarding. There is a $400+ bounty for the feature.

https://mistertea.github.io/EternalTerminal/

Great, they seem to have just solved `-R` (reverse) tunnels: https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal/pull/80

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

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Post by itomato »

Windows 10 behaves so much like Windows 95 I'm embarrassed for Microsoft.

Anything that seems remotely intuitive coming from a Mac means I'm thrust back into that antiquated mode of thinking and working. Be warned, these anecdotes come from experiences with company-issued equipment.

Need to work with cross-platform files or bootstrap a development environment? Still running back to Cygwin.

Need some sort of ability to edit ASCII text files? Good luck with that.

Working with an .xz or .gz tarball? Take this malware-infested junk and muddle through.

Click on the minuscule little icon to expose ten more minuscule icons which are absolutely essential to get anything done.

One thing I can say is improved; up-arrow command history. That's about all I can see. Oh, and the old nit about pressing 'Ctrl-Alt-Del' to log in.

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Post by eisa01 »

art0rz wrote: post #276
e40 wrote: post #262

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Yeah, I saw a dude in the elevator (this year) because his Windows 10 started installing updates when he shut it down, but he needed to leave the office. I get so much crap when I say this online, but Windows is a complete shit show. Yeah, there are issues with macOS, but it is lightyears better. Yeah, I know Apple has dropped the ball on hardware, but my 5 year old MBP is just fine.

I've shutdown my laptop/closed the lid loads of times during updates, Windows manages just fine. It rolls back the update if needed and tries again upon boot.

Yup, done so as well. I was surprised it went well!

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Post by ballenf »

Anyone else have experience in this aspect:

> 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.

[emphasis mine] Good for Microsoft if so, but I have to wonder if it's one of those situations where everything works well until you hit a brick wall and have to re-setup everything on Mac/Linux to stay productive.

This comment bothered me:

> Generally, the sticking point for designers is Sketch, which to date refuses to build a Windows client — a ridiculous, anti-user move that I hope eventually will cause people to reconsider it in their workflows.

Especially from a developer, that seems like a very uncharitable, demanding interpretation. Is there more to the story? Maybe the author being a web developer influences that view or he just loves Sketch and is bitter to have left it behind.

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

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Post by chaostheory »

sigzero wrote: post #282

Almost every single review on YouTube for the Surface Book 2 says the same thing..."Way too expensive for what you get."

Yeah I would have a hard time justifying it because there are plenty of decent alternatives. With Mac OS, you have no choice. Even with all of its bugs, it's just really hard to get away from MacOS. This is switching from Windows years ago.
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