How’s the development environment on the Surface Laptops?
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Moved from macOS to Windows in 2016. And yes, obviously apple no longer has a dedicated macOS group and tells regular people who want laptops to run iPads. macOS doesn't get a lot of love.
Surface is basically just a high quality Windows machine. The dev environment, for most of the HN crowd, will be WSL2, which means Ubuntu 16.04 or 20.04. apt-get is way better than homebrew.
Surface specific:
- I've had good experiences with the Microsoft store, if they exist in your country.
- Alcantara can get gross after a year of palm sweat and personally I find it tough to clean.
Surface is cool, you can also look at Lenovo kit or the Dell XPS 13.
Surface is basically just a high quality Windows machine. The dev environment, for most of the HN crowd, will be WSL2, which means Ubuntu 16.04 or 20.04. apt-get is way better than homebrew.
Surface specific:
- I've had good experiences with the Microsoft store, if they exist in your country.
- Alcantara can get gross after a year of palm sweat and personally I find it tough to clean.
Surface is cool, you can also look at Lenovo kit or the Dell XPS 13.
I’m definitely looking for premium support when something goes wrong. I think Apple no longer offers this service in real terms.
Ubuntu is ok. I’ve used it before. OSX is usually very good. Just Catalina is dreadful. I’ve picked a surface because it’s as close to the Mac as I can find.
Ubuntu is ok. I’ve used it before. OSX is usually very good. Just Catalina is dreadful. I’ve picked a surface because it’s as close to the Mac as I can find.
Personally I think OS X peaked in 2010, and the keyboard debacle sealed the deal for leaving. But fair enough.
The terminal you'll be using is Windows Terminal. It's good, and has a lot of attention from Microsoft.
What language are you coding in?
Personally a Surface Book 3, non Alcantara is the best dev machine. They all have great keyboards though. If you want to save money Surface Laptop 2 is on sale.
The terminal you'll be using is Windows Terminal. It's good, and has a lot of attention from Microsoft.
What language are you coding in?
Personally a Surface Book 3, non Alcantara is the best dev machine. They all have great keyboards though. If you want to save money Surface Laptop 2 is on sale.
I’ll see some YouTube videos about Microsoft terminal. If the new Ryzen CPU is in the latest surface laptops I think my mind will definitive made up.
A Windows dev here who transitioned from OSX back in '14. Surface is basically MS flagship, a highend Windows machine. Speaking of dev environment, mine is:
- WSL
- Virtualised Linux
- Remote Linux machines
Works like a charm.
Works like a charm.
For those on the surface laptop range what’s the development experience like on windows? How’s the power in the 16GB models and are you enjoying the laptop?