I would like to share with you a very cool project that develops drivers for correct operation of Microsoft Surface devices on Linux. I myself use Surface Pro 6 with these drivers and everything works like a charm (battery life is good, cameras work, stylus, keyboard, touchscreen, screen). The developers are gods. From myself, I would recommend using Fedora Linux distribution, as I got the best battery life on it and didn’t experience any additional bugs. If you don’t like GNOME, you can try spins.

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Awesome additional resources:

  • palordrolap@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    Microsoft wants to give Linux a nice warm hug and then squeeze and squeeze and all the warmth disappears this is actually quite a high pressure oh that hurts Microsoft no ow are those needles coming out of your arms I think I hear bones splintering and screaming oh no it’s me I’m screaming I’m hearing myself screaming I’m turning into

  • privsecfoss@feddit.dk
    1·
    1 year ago

    I applaud Linux on as many laptops as possible. But given Microsoft’s history of EEE, bad security practices and multiple and on going privacy violations I would really not recommend using anything Microsoft. If you must use fx Surface I would recommend buying a used one. Or better yet a used Thinkpad or similar enterprise laptop used.

    • FarLine99@lemm.eeOP
      0·
      1 year ago

      Security? Maybe. Privacy? Too hard and nonsense to implement hardware tracking to spy on 1% of users without Windows.

      • privsecfoss@feddit.dk
        0·
        1 year ago

        Agree on privacy. And why bother when Intel/AMD have their Management Engine (ME) and AMD their equivalent.

        But why support a company like Microsoft when they have a long history of prioritizing profit over user freedom (FOSS/EEE), security and privacy?

        • FarLine99@lemm.eeOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Because there is no such well made 2-in-1 device from System76, Tuxedo or some another good manufacturer.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Fwiw, this is NOT an official Microsoft release, it’s like Asahi Linux, where the community made it Linux-compatible

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    0·
    1 year ago

    I’m grabbing a decommissioned surface pro 7 from work today! Just need to order a charger for it, and I’ll try this out :)