nottheengineer

Make sure that the addons can only be used by VScode. There's vscodium for now, but microsoft could easily shut that down.

Please look up "Embrace, extend, extinguish". VScode is open-source for now, but all the microsoft extensions you need to turn it into an IDE have DRM on them and microsoft puts work into trying to make those extensions not work with VScode forks.

WSL is the same thing. They start by embracing linux and soon they'll start installing MS crap into the guest system or shipping their own distro that's filled with it. This is the extend part. The final goal is to extinguish desktop linux and make everything WSL to be able to track it all and harvest shitloads of data.

VScode is the epitome of the EEE strategy. The core product is open-source, but it's filled to the brim with tracking and the official extensions have DRM. Yes, there's DRM on your python LSP.

Anyone who gives a shit should look for alternatives right away. The problem is just that there aren't any that are as easy to set up.

Pen support on linux is amazing. On the T935 it worked without any setup and was much better than on windows in terms of input lag and turning the touchscreen off/on properly.

I used Xournal++ and while the UI is a bit small on a 13" 1080p screen, it worked perfectly.

Now I remember another thing you should probably look out for: Don't get anything with a higher resolution than 1080p. Fractional scaling on linux is basically not a thing, so the resolution determines the size of any UI.

I put a similar amount of money into a used fujitsu T935 a few years ago for the same reason.

It was great for this, so I'd recommend looking into used 2in1 laptops. With linux and TLP you can easily get enough battery life out of pretty much anything.

.NET means it'll be a huge pain to get it running on linux, so it's a no from me.

Window manager? I use tmux directly on the tty, that way there's much less that can break.

This is nothing compared to echo "alias np=new_program" >> ~/.zshrc

People who preorder a phone are out of their fucking mind, simple as that.

I wouldn't call that weird. Microsoft's track record for anything involving security is absolutely atrocious, to a point where you now have to assume everything in azure and every single windows computer is compromised: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702095

Classic Microsoft. They regularly use defender to harrass users of software they don't like.