How’s the development environment on the Surface Laptops? I have had a hell of a time with Apple lately and quite honestly I don’t think they deserve the thousands of dollars I give them for the MacBook Pro 15”. I’ve had the power brick die on a one month old device. Catalina is one of the most buggy operating versions I’ve ever used. For those on the surface laptop range what’s the development experience like on windows? How’s the power in the 16GB models and are you enjoying the laptop? |
Surface is basically just a high quality Windows machine. The dev environment, for most of the HN crowd, will be WSL2, which means Ubuntu 16.04 or 20.04. apt-get is way better than homebrew.
Surface specific:
- I've had good experiences with the Microsoft store, if they exist in your country.
- Alcantara can get gross after a year of palm sweat and personally I find it tough to clean.
Surface is cool, you can also look at Lenovo kit or the Dell XPS 13.
Ubuntu is ok. I’ve used it before. OSX is usually very good. Just Catalina is dreadful. I’ve picked a surface because it’s as close to the Mac as I can find.
The terminal you'll be using is Windows Terminal. It's good, and has a lot of attention from Microsoft.
What language are you coding in?
Personally a Surface Book 3, non Alcantara is the best dev machine. They all have great keyboards though. If you want to save money Surface Laptop 2 is on sale.
Works like a charm.