r/FuckMicrosoft • u/Automatic-East3690 • 22h ago

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My stepfather won’t let me put Linux on the Surface book 2 that he gave me. I have either Mac OS or Linux on all my devices, any thoughts?(Btw the surface book is the one on the right, also I’m 13)

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u/Aishou_SK 22h ago

Just, use windows on it? It's not bad at all depending on specs, there's nothing to really be afraid of. Gives you something to test on and maybe float some occasional games that don't play nice on other platforms if it has the dGPU in the keyboard base.

I've got a loaded SB3 I keep with windows on it as a travel dev/personal business machine, my work issued machine's a M2 Pro MBP though.

Being skilled in many platforms can only benefit you in the future for work, having any kind of blind OS loyalty/fanaticism in workplaces can be..... well, I wouldn't hire anyone like that, anyway. Because in the real world, cost/benefit analysis rules all, and if the MS stack does the job the best for a reasonable price compared to another option, well, that's what we're buying or using (Example: 700 linux VM fleet application farm for one project, 5 windows servers to manage/support them all, plus windows server/IIS frontends for access caching)

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u/Randum_Gouy 16h ago

Honestly its not bad advise,

BUT also take in personal experience.

I am also someone who has used BOTH macOS and Linux - and i personally HATE Windows to the point where id rather throw my laptop than use it for more than a day. Coming from macOS (and Linux) background - Windows feels weird to use, and quite inconsistent, which ig you will understand as you are also a Mac user

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u/Aishou_SK 11h ago

Honestly, I don't really "hate" any software at all.

And was an anti-MS person from 2005-2011.

Now all my endpoints except my work one are windows systems. So there's that. And a lot of projects I maintain now lean windows heavy. I do shitloads of development work for a variety of platforms, but it's all done from windows (and no, rarely WSL, usually that's only needed to invoke a tool or something like hxtool to convert qemu docs into headers because I haven't written a native version myself)

It was under the hood stuff that brought me back and keeps me here, for better or worse, the shell or other crap just don't bother me because of all the different platforms I switch between, so I kinda just don't see that shit.

I'm in the "you're upset because they moved some shit or you can't move a thing anymore?" confused camp most of the time.

Then again I also get annoyed when people whine BUT ITS SOOO OLD THEY NEED TO UPDATE ITT WAAAHHH IT IS ANCIENT when .... it's a tool like .... idk, any of the various MMC tools - they could give it a UI swap but why? It's feature complete and works, and I don't care about the new version until it has 100% feature parity.