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I have had a Surface Book for a couple years now. And this definitely does not match my experience. -The battery is great, virtually never have to plug it in.

I have had a Surface Book for a couple years now. And this definitely does not match my experience. -The battery is great, virtually never have to plug it in. Can go a whole day working from home without power. Or even a whole weekend of light use. Although I have found that on occasion it does not sleep correctly when you close the lid, hitting the power button when closing the screen has prevented that problem. But I have never come back to a dead laptop, just a few percent less. -I don't think I have seen a fullscreen metro app in...well a long time if ever. So not sure what apps you are using that this happens with. -WSL has no gaps where I need it. I use it for Linux Web development all day long with no issues. Especially due to recent updates. -Maybe I have been lucky, but I have never had an issue with windows update. Perhaps it is being more aggressive than normal. -I just unpinned everything from the start menu, and haven't seen any ads for anything since I did. Am I missing them somewhere?

darzu 8y ago
> Can go a whole day working from home without power Perhaps mine has a defect, but I feel lucky if I can get 2-3 hours of solid work done. > So not sure what apps you are using that this happens with. The various windows settings are split between both modes and by default the settings window will open maximized. Also, there are two latest versions of OneNote (which is annoying) for example and the UWP one likes to open fullscreen. I think all UWP apps do. > WSL has no gaps where I need it. - I believe if you clone a git repo in WSL and then try to use git for windows or any windows app like VSCode or Visual Studio, it'll get very confused. - Also I think I remember having several weird file permission issues. - My WSL terminals open very slowly due to something in my bashrc I haven't pinned down (my terminals open lightning quick in iTerm2 or ubuntu.) And performance in WSL is a good deal slower than an ubuntu VM or native Windows. > I just unpinned everything from the start menu I'm sure this works, but there are enough annoying issues like this in default Windows 10 that it really hampers the experience.

darzu 8y ago

> Can go a whole day working from home without power Perhaps mine has a defect, but I feel lucky if I can get 2-3 hours of solid work done. > So not sure what apps you are using that this happens with. The various windows settings are split between both modes and by default the settings window will open maximized. Also, there are two latest versions of OneNote (which is annoying) for example and the UWP one likes to open fullscreen. I think all UWP apps do. > WSL has no gaps where I need it. - I believe if you clone a git repo in WSL and then try to use git for windows or any windows app like VSCode or Visual Studio, it'll get very confused. - Also I think I remember having several weird file permission issues. - My WSL terminals open very slowly due to something in my bashrc I haven't pinned down (my terminals open lightning quick in iTerm2 or ubuntu.) And performance in WSL is a good deal slower than an ubuntu VM or native Windows. > I just unpinned everything from the start menu I'm sure this works, but there are enough annoying issues like this in default Windows 10 that it really hampers the experience.