I've noticed this too around here. Titles will be changed and their meaning altered, effectively putting words in the original author's mouth. Seems kinda unethical to me, but it happens all the time.
HN automatically edits out some patterns from titles. If it happens to you and you want to put it back, you can just edit the title again after submission and it will stick.
Check the guidelines, it encourages neutering headlines in multiple ways; believe the idea is people can form their own judgement on whether it's good or bad.
I found the headline here actually incomprehensible. Had Microsoft built Windows 11 on top of WSL? Built part of it that way?
What you'd means is "Windows 11 includes a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux" if you wanted to removed the editorializing. But the article is editorializing - they don't like the rest of windows 11 and say so.
Without "the best" the title reads to me as that they somehow removed chunk of original Windows and replaced it with WSL. That's why I came to this topic. I thought to myself - really - so they now replacing windows code with Linux? Original title is clear and not clickbaity.
Ironically enough given its reputation, but this is what Bixby is great at - controlling the _device_ with your voice using short commands - "Open Camera", "Take photo", "Delete last photo" etc all work as expected (as a toy example, far more complicated stuff is possible even before including their Siri Shortcut equivalent)
If you're looking for a general-purpose tablet computer I think the Surface lineup is nearly unparalleled, with some important caveats.
You get a very well built machine with the best aspect ratio (3:2), Win10 tablet mode is decent _and_ you can drop back to full Windows whenever you want. This is a double edged sword - if you get a good tablet interface for a program it's wonderful, but sometimes you're reduced to pecking at the screen for mouse targets in legacy Win32 apps (the pen or cover with trackpad is helpful here).
For me, the ability to run any software I want is worth the rough edges and inconsistency compared to an iPad. I have WSL for local dev with full Linux utilities, real Photoshop, alternate browsers, Steam games, etc. I can install whatever nifty little Windows utilities or tweaks I want, customize the machine exactly as I like it, and I feel like I have lot more ownership over the machine as a result. That flexibility definitely comes with a cost compared to the out-of-the-box experience with an iPad.
As for the Go itself, its a really cute little computer but somewhat underpowered compared to a Surface Pro or Surface Book. I know a couple of people using them as their main computers and the feedback is pretty positive, FWIW.
Just a caveat that userbenchmark (while pretty useful) is banned on several hardware subreddits for _very_ questionable scoring methods, which seem to indicate bias towards certain manufacturers (most notably, drastic changes to CPU scoring just after the new Ryzen chips were released which seemed deliberately designed to keep Intel's enthusiast parts ahead). I believe their GPU benchmarks are more trustworthy, but I would skip them entirely still.
3Dmark is still fairly standard, and most reviews will include a suite of gaming / rendering tasks as well that can give much more useful real-world benchmarks. LinusTechTips is usually very good - e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDPTJ-3qCM
Apple's iCloud upsell is far worse than Microsoft's to boot. To disable:
MS / Windows 10: Uninstall the preloaded OneDrive app in the standard way
Apple / macOS Catalina: Reboot to recovery, mount the system drive (avoiding SIP etc), use Terminal to move a plist from the System LaunchAgents - named "followupd", in case you thought it wouldn't be hidden / obfuscated. Unmount and reboot, praying you didn't break your OS. Then delete a few preference files for System Preferences.app. Oh, and likely have to repeat the process after updates
Which one would you be comfortable helping a less technical person do? And given the trajectory of macOS, I wouldn't be surprised if they close that "loophole" soon...
I actually kind of feel like there is some false advertising around iCloud. If think the wording has changed over time but it arguably implies you get 5gig of storage when you buy an apple device. Except you don't get 5gig of storage PER device. you get 5gig of storage per account. So if you buy 4 devices (Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppleTV) it seems like you should be able to get 1 account with 20 gig of storage or 2 accounts with 10gig, etc. But if all those devices are for the same person you only get 5gig.
I know the wording used to be something along the lines of "every iPhone comes with 5gig of icloud storage". The new wording is "iCloud is built into every Apple device ... Everyone gets 5GB of free iCloud storage to start"
The advice we got from our professors when writing theses was: crack open a bottle of fine whisk{e}y [0], get a couple glasses in, write (while keeping your drink topped of course) until writing is a serious challenge, edit the next morning in the harsh and sober light of day [1].
Works a treat, even if you liver may not fully appreciate it.
[0] Whiskey may be substituted for your preferred liquor, but it is a solid traditional writers' choice
This works for many kinds of writing. I often tell people who are trying to work on their website copy to do this. Otherwise your mind comes up with too many objections and you don't get anything done. ;-)
For whatever reason, HN is completely uncritical of anything Apple does. It has gotten to the point that _/r/apple_ tends to have a richer debate about the companies actions. It's a side effect of the lack of subreddit equivalents IMO.
How is this at the top of HN? There's a lot to argue against Google and Android, but this is just inane. Complaining about the _splash screen_ of a phone? This is clickbait for /r/apple at best...
Exactly this. The Moto G6 boot animation resembles more a video game cut scene. Its inappropriately loud and flashy and doesn't match the rest of the Moto G5/G6 experience. It cannot be muted, I hated rebooting it.
Edit: it can be switched off. settings=> sound=> advanced=> startup sound
> Complaining about the _splash screen_ of a phone?
The typical argument of people without any aesthetic taste: it's inane, it doesn't matter, etc. I, for one, find it perfectly reasonable to complain about such a thing.
Would you buy a suit with a giant drawing of a penis on its back? It's inane to complain about it, right? Well, some people actually care about the appearance and design of things.
I say this as a Linux user and "FOSS zealot". Linux distributions have many design quirks and, let's face it, usability deficiencies. I use Linux despite that fact, because I prefer dealing with those deficiencies instead of dealing with the user-hostily of Microsoft and Apple, but if someone complains about the deficiencies of Linux I don't go around calling them inane.
The stores (and iMessage) get brought up a lot, but for the world outside the US they are a secondary consideration if they even factor in at all. There are more _Samsung_ stores in Dublin than Apple, and the ones we have a 3rd party 'authorised resellers' with average service at best...
Yeah, completely agree on my Surface Book being the MBP I wanted to buy Great hardware (including touchpad and keyboard), Win 10 and WSL have come a long way, and the touchscreen and stylus option became part of my workflow much quicker than I expected. Probably the best laptop I've ever owned, including the 2010-2015 era 15" MBPs.
Regarding native terminals, I've had the best success with ConEmu set up to drop into WSL zsh by default. Easy to launch into cmd or powershell for Windows native stuff to boot.
Why remove "The best"? Feels like unnecessary editorializing