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Re:New iPad Air and iPad Mini by baby on Monday March 18, 2019 @09:26PM (#19427235)
I really really considered getting a Surface Pro, but:

* no airdrop

* poor development environment vs mac's unix

* apple ecosystem (this one, I really hate)

So instead I bought an iPad pro. I wish Apple would make something more like the surface book 2.

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Re:New iPad Air and iPad Mini by solarkraft on Monday March 18, 2019 @09:56PM (#19427384)
If I got a tablet/laptop hybrid I wouldn't use it with Windows. Linux is a great development environment.
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Re:New iPad Air and iPad Mini by baby on Friday March 22, 2019 @12:41AM (#19459666)
Ah true, didn't think about that.

Problems I can think about: I want to be able to switch easily to tablet mode or to draw, and it's probably better to stay on windows for that. I'm not sure how well linux is supported on the surface book as well?

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Re:New iPad Air and iPad Mini by solarkraft on Friday March 22, 2019 @04:42PM (#19466717)
It is true that pen support on Linux isn't perfect, but a friend of mine uses Xournal for his notes. Took a bit of configuring, but seems to work well.

It doesn't have any ink simulation and I'm not sure whether there are apps/drivers that support it.

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