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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by justinclift on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:03AM (#36531085)
For me, after doing a bunch of evaluation I went with buying an old (and very cheap) 2nd hard Surface Pro 3 on Ebay to see if that could possibly do the job.

... and yep, it does even with just Windows on it. Technically Linux can be loaded onto these things, and apparently works pretty well. But, I never got around to trying that out.

About a year later I dropped the damn thing and completely shattered the screen. Still haven't replaced it, but mean to at some point. Again, not with an iPad, but probably a newer generation Surface Pro. And I'll put Linux on it this time. :)

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by the__alchemist on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:13AM (#36534241)
My experience with Linux on on a SP wasn't great. The basic PC functionality is fine, but getting the pen and touch working required a custom kernel and a fair amount of effort. The input latency on the pen, combined with no good writing apps on Linux killed it for me.
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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by justinclift on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:42AM (#36534744)
Ahhh damn. Didn't know that.

Thanks for the heads up. :)

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by makeitdouble on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:06PM (#36537483)
Full linux as the host OS is probably excruciating. Keeping windows as the host and rely on the WSL2 subsystem seems fine, docker works as well.
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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by diffeomorphism on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:40AM (#36535722)
Out of curiosity, what are the "good writing apps" on windows? When I last checked windows seemed to have exactly one note, android like 2 apps and iPad like 3 apps.
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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by the__alchemist on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:58AM (#36536040)
OneNote

Concepts is good for some things too.

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by diffeomorphism on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:51PM (#36538258)
Concepts looks nice and I hadn't heard of it before. The freemium and/or subscription seems like a potential dealbreaker to me, but might be worth a try.
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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by goosedragons on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:00PM (#36539418)
There's a few OneNote of course, Nebo, Noteshelf, Squid which is really an Android app. All of those are on iOS and Android too. Microsoft Journal I just discovered and seems alright.
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