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Any experiences with dual booting in to Linux on the Surface Book? I can imagine some things, like detaching not working optimally, but does it work at all?

• kanishkdudeja 9y ago
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• AlphaWeaver 9y ago
  Not a duel boot, but I regularly use the Windows Subsystem for Linux on my Surface Book for work and personal development, I've had no problems whatsoever. Works like a dream, and if you stick an X server on your computer, X applications pretty much just _work._ If you haven't yet, it's worth looking into.
• sleibrock 9y ago
  I've used Linux on a Surface 3 so I imagine it'll be a similar story for the Book: many things won't play as nice as they would under Windows (sleeping when closing it, WiFi), things like the touch screen might not play ball, and the graphics drivers might not work. Linux 4.9 aimed to make the Surface usable, but I haven't found a distro that played with the Wifi drivers nicely (would work for a few minutes, then would shut off, become unresponsive, and required a hard reboot to get working again). There is a Fedora Surface image that many suggest works really well on Surfaces, but I couldn't get it to boot. Now I just prefer using a Virtualbox image to do all my Linux stuff. It's easier to set up and requires far less rebooting.
• Bedon292 9y ago
  I am not sure how well it would work to even get Linux on it. I thought they had a fairly locked down boot loader. And no way there is a good driver for the screen release. On the other hand, I have never even contemplated dual booting it because WSL does everything I need Linux for. It is actually pretty good.
• cube2222 9y ago
  Try to use Windows Subsystem for Linux and Docker for Windows. They are both beautifully integrated and work like a charm.