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For those who're thinking about going to Windows. Yesterday I pulled my Surface Pro out of the drawer, installed updates and tried using it once again. Here is
by p2t2p 8y ago
For those who're thinking about going to Windows. Yesterday I pulled my Surface Pro out of the drawer, installed updates and tried using it once again.
Here is list of what happened.
- Keyboard didn't work no matter work, attach, un-attach, reboot, power off, nothing. It started working after I watered contacts.
- No bluetooth for you until Windows is booted. That means when the keyboard failed I couldn't choose Windows startup options as I have no wired keyboards home.
- Inking still has noticeable lag compared to my iPad Pro (the very old one, 9.7 inch)
- One Note still has no proper grid - one is too small and tiny and another one is too large, no grid that would much traditional notebook grid. Both Apple Notes and Notability on my iPad Pro have proper grids that more or less resembles the notebook.
- One Note refused to create a notebook "Foo" with message "Notebook Foo already exists" because I had a folder "Foo" in the "Documents" directory in OneDrive. I had to delete it.
- Build-in Photos app crashed when I tried to edit a video with it. That is click a video in the collection, click "Edit" button, see "Preparing video" screen, crash.
- YouTube application that is one of the top in the Store crashes every time I try to scroll things. It's fine until I scroll something, then crash.
- Startup items that cannot be deleted even though application are gone for good. Only disabled.
- I tried to install Adobe products. When I uninstalled it I had two services left running and 1 GB of files that has been leftover. I had to open PowerShell and manually disable and delete services and then manually delete the files.
- I tried to install Amazon Photos and while it completely removed itself during uninstall I'm stuck with "Amazon Photos" startup item. Files are gone for good though.
- One of the reboots took over 40 minutes. I dunno what was it doing, it was just sitting there with “Rebooting” screen, speaking fans. I let it run just to see how long can it be like that
All this I had in two evenings. I didn't even try to do any real work on that thing.
I know that Adobe and YouTube app issues are not Microsoft's fault but that the culture you have in this ecosystem. Be ready you'll have to deal with that.
I made my choice - until Apple looses it completely I'm stuck with them because everything else is just unbearable. And once they've loose it I'll probably go linux or stop using computers altogether.