[DavidTWco]

I use a Surface Pro 4 daily and it's great. I'm a student so the writing with the pen made it pretty appealing and it's more than powerful enough to do any development work.

I do almost 100% of my work in Bash for Windows. Like one of the other commenters, I am on the slow ring insider builds, I needed this to get inotify support.

Using tmux and Vim, it's a really great environment. Before I started using Bash on Windows, I was still happy with the device, but developing on Windows was a bit of a pain.

Some of my work involves using Docker, which works surprisingly well - Docker for Windows runs Linux containers in Hyper-V without any configuration and I've never ran into a problem with that. Only thing I had to change was to make the daemon allow connections over tcp alongside the default named pipes. That way I can set the DOCKER_HOST variable and use it from within Bash on Windows. There are some minor niggles regarding volumes but it's otherwise perfect.

Outside development, using Windows on the device is pretty nice. I'd rather it didn't have ridiculous amounts of telemetry but it works great and the flexibility of the device is ideal for use around the house.

[ctkrohn]

Are you running vim within tmux? Which terminal emulator are you using? Were you able to get full color support? I tried doing this a few months ago but was never able to get Vim set up to my satisfaction.

[coldtea]

>I use a Surface Pro 4 daily and it's great. I'm a student so the writing with the pen made it pretty appealing

Artists maybe, but in what universe students routinely write with a pen nowadays?

[govg]

A cheap surface would be a pretty killer device for anyone doing their undergrad/grad studies now. In my experience, jotting down on a surface is pretty close to having a stack of A4s and a nice pen to have, you can doodle on it, organize notes, draw diagrams of varying complexity, and take notes in your own handwriting (or if it is bad, type it out).

[detaro]

In my experience, those in universes with math(-heavy) lectures.

And in general, scribbling notes or highlighting in provided materials isn't that unusual either, especially among those that own devices with pen input.