Moved from macOS to Windows in 2016. And yes, obviously apple no longer has a dedicated macOS group and tells regular people who want laptops to run iPads. macOS doesn't get a lot of love.

Surface is basically just a high quality Windows machine. The dev environment, for most of the HN crowd, will be WSL2, which means Ubuntu 16.04 or 20.04. apt-get is way better than homebrew.

Surface specific:

- I've had good experiences with the Microsoft store, if they exist in your country.

- Alcantara can get gross after a year of palm sweat and personally I find it tough to clean.

Surface is cool, you can also look at Lenovo kit or the Dell XPS 13.