News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by lmm on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:05AM (#15491509)
I was a Linux diehard for years but I'm very happy with my Surface Book. With "Ubuntu on Windows" you can run the usual unix command line tools; if anything it's more comfortable than OSX since you get up-to-date GNU versions rather than older GNU tools.
Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by baldfat on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:10AM (#15491562)
I am also most comfortable with my OpenSUSE but Windows 10 is great and I have OpenSUSE Bash for Windows installed. It really is nice and it is case sensitive! Why is Mac OS OPTIONAL case sensitivity?
Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by snuxoll on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:52AM (#15491964)
> Why is Mac OS OPTIONAL case sensitivity?

A relic from HFS of old, there's some notable applications that still fail hard on case-sensitive HFS+/APFS volumes so the default is insensitive (hey, Adobe, I'm looking at you - OS X/macOS 10 has been out for a decade and a half, get your shit together).

Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by baldfat on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @12:05PM (#15492069)
I do contract work for Video/Audio production (Usually fix the crappy audio that they recorded UGH) I ran into that one a few times. Once all my work was over written because I capitalized the fixed files. The other time is we joined all our work into a pool and that crashed every Adobe application working on the job.
Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by masklinn on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:09PM (#15492661)
> if anything it's more comfortable than OSX since you get up-to-date GNU versions rather than older GNU tools.

1. By and large, OSX ships the BSD userland not GNU

2. You can trivially add up-to-date GNU tools to OSX: install homebrew, install whichever GNU stuff you want

Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by damnyou on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:35PM (#15493493)
I have better things to do with my life than prefix every command with a g.
Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by skinnymuch on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:33PM (#15496700)
You don't have to. Many of the commands that you install have simple work arounds so you can use the same command.
Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by lmm on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:58PM (#15495664)
Yes, sorry, "Older BSD tools" is what I meant to type.