| I brought a Surface Go 2, and returned it within 3 days. The device was brilliant, but I couldn't get over its operating system, especially not on a mobile device. I hoped for a tablet I can do light dev work on, but I got a mediocre laptop without a keyboard. The open/edit/save process is good for desktop, but not for mobile. On mobile operating systems you open and close apps without thinking. On windows you first need to tackle the unsaved change dialogs, find where you save your files, etc. You don't open recent drawings from a gallery, but from your filesystem. It sucks all the joy out of sketching, for example. It becomes work. The lack if drawing apps was critical. There were Photoshop-like desktop apps, and half-baked mobile one. They were either really complex, or buggy beyond repair. Each handled the pencil in a different way, but never smoothly. Even media playback sucked. I had to mess with environment variables to make VLC usable with fingers. Windows Media Player was not better. Then there's Windows Update. My tablet was unusable for a big chunk of the first evening while it installed Bing news in my task bar and messed with my theme. I heard that these tablets have tons of hardware and software problems, but I didn't get to that. Long story short, it's really hard to get excited about Surface products when they are crippled by a poor OS and serious reliability issues. |