Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry
by komali2 on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:03PM
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Surface book can't draw enough power from its own brick to power its video card at full draw, so when doing graphics intensive stuff the battery drains.
Other than that, it's a dream machine, minus that I hate working in windows. Usually will just work in a VM in virtual box with Debian. I can't get wsl to work well for me - for example, I'll be using git in there, but vscode will be open directly in windows, and get super confused with it's own git implementation.
The reason I went with the surface like was stylus+touchpad. I'm a huge annotator and handwritten note taker. The better platform for this turned out to be thinkpad x1 yoga, cause I could just install Ubuntu natively.
Edit: by the way, windows update has fucked me more than any human. That was a big reason to switch off for me. That and Candy crush.
Other than that, it's a dream machine, minus that I hate working in windows. Usually will just work in a VM in virtual box with Debian. I can't get wsl to work well for me - for example, I'll be using git in there, but vscode will be open directly in windows, and get super confused with it's own git implementation.
The reason I went with the surface like was stylus+touchpad. I'm a huge annotator and handwritten note taker. The better platform for this turned out to be thinkpad x1 yoga, cause I could just install Ubuntu natively.
Edit: by the way, windows update has fucked me more than any human. That was a big reason to switch off for me. That and Candy crush.