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:

  • WorseDoughnut@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Huge fan of the surface-Linux kernel, been running Kubuntu on my Surface Laptop 3 for years now.

    I actually bought the laptop explicitly because of the compatibility chart on the project saying it was totally viable.

  • neosloth@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    Been using it with a SP9. Overall it’s been a great experience, but not perfect. Cameras don’t work, shutdown doesn’t work properly when connected to power and the rotation is funky. I knew what I signed up for though as it is a very new device.

    Still much better than using windows

  • Nuuskis9@feddit.nl
    1·
    1 year ago

    Is Surface arm or x86?

    Just asking for my personal curiosity, that why you don’t use immutable version of Fedora?

    • FarLine99OP
      2·
      1 year ago

      X86. Because I like tinkering with my system and kinda see no purpose in Immutability for me.

  • DecentFarts@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    Neat! I just started using my surface pro 6 because my framework laptop is waiting on RMA parts. Truthfully, I’m surprised at how well surface pro 6 performs. Having a machine from the OS OEM makes a big difference.