I’m impressed with the Surface Pro hardware and could see myself dropping Mac hardware entirely.<p>What stops me is Windows. I’m very comfortable in Unix-like environments and I’m not giving that up.<p>Last time I used Windows (~8 years ago?) it wasn’t really possible to achieve a comfortable Unix-like workflow in Windows, and the quality of tooling and ecosystem for Windows devs was abysmal (unless you were doing Windows platform dev specifically). But their recent activity with VS Code and support for open source and acquisition of GitHub etc makes me think maybe that situation has improved recently.<p>Have any of you switched from Mac (or Linux) back to Windows recently and kept a Unix-based workflow? What solutions did you find, and how painful has it been?
I have recently switched from Mac to Windows using WSL. It works, but isn’t quite as intuitive as I had been hoping for. The Linux part kind of lives on its own separately from Windows and you have to make a choice whether you’re going to use the WSL or use Windows. There isn’t really any mixing of the two as far as I have seen (eg installing Ruby vía WSL and running commands from Windows won’t work). Probably better explained and expected from people who understand the architecture better than I do.
I did and its fantastic if u use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) which let's u actually just use a headless Ubuntu within windows seemless integrated.
Ubuntu on a Surface Pro 3 is my daily driver. The install requires a bit of jumping through hoops, but once you've managed to boot into the right partition everything works as expected. Everything I use at least.