[nailer]

Moved from macOS to Windows in 2016. And yes, obviously apple no longer has a dedicated macOS group and tells regular people who want laptops to run iPads. macOS doesn't get a lot of love.

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.

[uyuioi]

I’m definitely looking for premium support when something goes wrong. I think Apple no longer offers this service in real terms.

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.

[nailer]

Personally I think OS X peaked in 2010, and the keyboard debacle sealed the deal for leaving. But fair enough.

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.

[uyuioi]

I’ll see some YouTube videos about Microsoft terminal. If the new Ryzen CPU is in the latest surface laptops I think my mind will definitive made up.