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Surface Book is not bad. No suspend though.
by hestefisk 8y ago
Surface Book is not bad. No suspend though.
- 0815test 8y agoDo you still need "unofficial" kernel patches to make it work properly under Linux? That's not what good support looks like. And the "no hardware support for ACPI suspend" thing is common to a lot of newer mobile hardware - they call it "Connected Standby", so just be aware of that misfeature.
- pizza234 8y agoI owned multiple Surface devises, and while I think it's a good machine for development in general, it's definitely not a "best laptop to run Linux", due to incomplete hardware support. In addition to the sleep, the webcam is not supported at all, and the wifi driver is far from perfect. An extremely annoying issue, although not relevant to Linux itself, is that the Fn key frequently disables itself, and there's no way to lock it (there was in the SP3). I've verified this on both a Surface Book and a Surface Book 2.
- jazoom 8y agoAdmittedly it's a different model, but I can't even get my Surface Pro 4 to boot from a Linux ISO. I followed Microsoft's instructions meticulously and it just didn't work when Linux was on the USB drive. I don't think the Surface line of products in general is great for Linux support.