When I returned to my violin six years ago, I first of all learned baroque violin with my teacher who is a baroque specialist. He urged me constantly to get a baroque bow, and at last I did, after he ordered a consignment of snakewood baroque bows from China. I used this bow to play baroque music, but could never quite achieve the 'spoonshaped' note that Fiddle Guru requested. According to baroque strings players, a note that does not change its intensity as it progresses before tailing off is a 'dead' note.
I also found the shape of the baroque bow made it harder to lift the bow - less wieldy - something to do with bow hold, no doubt. Of course, chords were easier to achieve.
I am now back with a tourte bow, but I did notice two helpful features of the baroque bow - it was shorter and lighter than my full sized tourte bow, and its shape made it much more stable on the strings & less liable to react to my nervousness in the dreaded 'bow shake' if/when performing in public.
Last year I met someone who had a carbon fibre bow - I now have a cheap one, and it's half-size, which is all I need for folk fiddle, and it's beautifully wieldy.
Before that, I had two fibre glass three-quarter bows, which I also preferred to my more expensive brazilwood full length bow.
Very interested if any violin player is reading to see what sort of bow you use and like.