Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

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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