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The Surface Pros are full fledged machines and quite powerful if bought with the right spec (not cheap though). Just get the keyboard cover. No idea how they wo
by maxxxxx 8y ago
The Surface Pros are full fledged machines and quite powerful if bought with the right spec (not cheap though). Just get the keyboard cover. No idea how they work with Linux though.
- alpaca128 8y ago> No idea how they work with Linux though. On the Surface Pro 1 you can forget using the pen input and sometimes the wifi will just disconnect until you reboot. Aside from that Linux will run pretty smoothly. From what I've read so far I get the impression it works better on the newer models though(SP3 and up).
- 0815test 8y agoThe very newest models seem to have quite a few issues with WiFi/BT and touchscreen support. This is not really acceptable for a development machine, or for that matter a tablet. A lesser issue is that most Surface devices do not support plain old ACPI standby in hardware; rather it's replaced by something called "Connected Standby" where the OS is tasked with minimizing power drain. Support for that is also lacking AIUI, but at least we can expect this to improve in the future.
- frosted-flakes 8y agoMany Linux distros don't seem to support display scaling (Ubuntu in particular), so the Surface Pro's high resolution display makes for tiny text. There are some work-arounds like setting custom font sizes, but none that work well.