Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?

Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by uuyi on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:03AM (#31097965)

It's not fanaticism really. A lot of us find it's the only computer that actually does a half decent job of trying to work properly and doesn't kick you in the balls. Well it does but rarely.

Honestly I'd rather be using Windows on a ThinkPad. I really really like windows, PuTTY, MS office etc and I even like spending time in Visual Studio. But the hardware quality has declined to near zero in the PC market and lets not even get into a discussion about the shit show that windows and the dev story on it has become in the last few years.

Please don't suggest WSL either. I have no energy for that and its associated problems.

Really it comes down to the least stinky turd. I wish one of the big vendors (MS / Apple / Linux Vendor X) would really try and concentrate on making the best user-centric experience because at the moment they're all failing. Apple is just failing less hard and when time is money, I'm just having to pay through the nose for a little bit of edge.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by sandGorgon on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @12:38PM (#31099548)

i would really recommend to try out wsl2. its become massively fantastic. you should try it if you havent.

Thinkpad with Windows 11 and WSL2 is mindblowing

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by uuyi on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:39PM (#31101876)

That’s the WSL I’m complaining about. Got VPN routing issues and background process problems. Plus the hyper-v vswitch keeps killing my networks. It’s not a real Linux. I’m done.

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