Introducing Surface Book 2

Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by jrs95 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:10PM (#15492672)

Google's PixelBook could be a good option if you don't have any need for Windows. It will run Linux easily via crouton.

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Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by cowmoo728 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:30PM (#15492834)

I found myself really frustrated by the keyboard layout on the chromebook pixel, specifically the chromeos specific keys that replaced the function keys and were missing the equivalent of f11 and f12. I really wanted to get the pixelbook but doubt I will just because of that.

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Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by iamalchemist on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:40PM (#15492931)

Pixelbook does not have a fan. Will that be okay? IDEs suck up a lot of resources and tend to heat up a lot. I was thinking about Pixelbook till someone raise this up. what's your opinion?

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Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by shimon_e on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:24PM (#15495493)

Using the Xiaomi Notebook 12 inch without a fan. Surprisingly, 4GB with 2 NVME drives is good enough for me. This is switching from xps 13 i7 with 8GB ram.

My one supports NVME in both slots so I don't know what other people on the internet who are saying the 12 inch doesn't support NVME are on about. I have the Kaby Lake version.

I have a 8GB swap which I guess is fast enough as its on the second NVME.

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Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by jrs95 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:56PM (#15493082)

I would imagine the passive cooling ought to work well enough given the hardware they've put in it.

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Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by y4mi on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:40PM (#15492925)

there are some limitations for software development with crouton though...

basic scripting works fine, but quite a few things fail. The most recent one i stumbled on was kivy [1]. It couldn't start X-Sessions to open any windows.

[1]https://kivy.org/#home

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Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by isr on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:50PM (#15495284)

Could you elaborate a bit on that? I find that a tad surprising ...

Just hazarding a guess, but are you using the xiwi X11 replacement? That's just a dummy x server, with everything forwarded to a chrome app. Its a hack to get around the chromeos switch from x to a custom wayland'ish display server. Pretty slow.

But with crouton, you can also run a full xorg on vt-2. And I would be very surprised if anything failed to run there (from a graphical perspective). Even steam with full hardware acceleration works.

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Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by y4mi on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:54AM (#15500199)

I started with xiwi, but as crouton environments are cheap, I also created a full xorg install. It's pretty easy to choose after all.

I've since installed galliumOs though, so I can't test anymore.

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Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by jrs95 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:47PM (#15492997)

Interesting, I wasn't aware of these issues. I'm pretty much strictly doing web & server development though

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