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Out of interest, what distro do you use? I tried to run Ubuntu on mine a while back, and ran into nothing but issues, so I stick to a VM with Debian nowadays.
by EnderMB 9y ago
Out of interest, what distro do you use? I tried to run Ubuntu on mine a while back, and ran into nothing but issues, so I stick to a VM with Debian nowadays.
- sho_hn 9y agoFedora. During the first year I built my own kernel that was Fedora's with some patches applied (I published it in a COPR for others to use as well) - it was needed even just to get a working keyboard and trackpad at the time. Around maybe the start of 2017 this became fortunately unnecessary, with the stock F26+ distro kernels driving everything but the touchscreen these days. So up to that point it's install and forget. Currently I build jakeday's kernel source tree (which he builds binaries from for Ubuntu) on Fedora to have the touchscreen working as well, as Intel never mainlined the driver for it. If you're running Ubuntu, just throwing jakeday's kernel PPA in there should do the trick. r/surfacelinux is probably the best community resource for this enterprise.