Ask HN: What laptop should I get instead of a Macbook Pro?

Re:Ask HN: What laptop should I get instead of a Macbook Pro? by numerlo on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:41AM (#12816341)

I would recommend a Surface Book. Even if you don't plan to use it as a tablet at all it still beats every other laptop on the market. Initially it had a lot of issues but now they have been fixed and it really is amazing.

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Re:Ask HN: What laptop should I get instead of a Macbook Pro? by krisdol on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:49AM (#12816425)

How's the linux support on it? Even if I got over the my frustrations with the windows desktop user-experience, not being unix-like is an absolute no-go for development.

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Re:Ask HN: What laptop should I get instead of a Macbook Pro? by basch on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:57AM (#12816502)

Ubuntu is built into Windows 10

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Re:Ask HN: What laptop should I get instead of a Macbook Pro? by sparky2012 on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:41AM (#12817169)

I don't think Bash on windows is a valid replacement for a full Linux setup. Nor does it indicate hardware compatibility for Linux on that machine. That being said, I believe that Linux runs with minimal issues on it. (https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/4gjx8g/ubuntu...)

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Re:Ask HN: What laptop should I get instead of a Macbook Pro? by basch on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:23PM (#12819152)

it's not just Bash, it's Ubuntu minus Linux, including binary compatibility. bit-for-bit, checksum-for-checksum Ubuntu ELF binaries running directly in Windows. all of Ubuntu user space.

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Re:Ask HN: What laptop should I get instead of a Macbook Pro? by sigjuice on Saturday October 29, 2016 @01:25AM (#12822753)

Does WSL implement all the Linux system calls now? The last time I looked at it, there was no support for PTYs and maybe ptrace? There was also some limitation related to running GUI programs.

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Re:Ask HN: What laptop should I get instead of a Macbook Pro? by mobiuscog on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:14AM (#12835525)

It's still lacking a fair bit of low-level stuff, but hopefully that's on the way.

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Re:Ask HN: What laptop should I get instead of a Macbook Pro? by basch on Saturday October 29, 2016 @06:41PM (#12826872)

its not Linux, its Ubuntu minus linux. It translates Linux system calls to the Windows kernel, like reverse wine.

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Re:Ask HN: What laptop should I get instead of a Macbook Pro? by swiley on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:46AM (#12816397)

I think I speak for a lot of people here when I say that good Linux support is extremely important. I'm not convinced the surface book has that.

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