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every six months I try to install linux on my surface sans-number (between 5 and 6 I guess), find bogus linux kernel, try it out, regret imensely. go back to c
by masnao 6y ago
every six months I try to install linux on my surface sans-number (between 5 and 6 I guess), find bogus linux kernel, try it out, regret imensely. go back to crapy-but-still-better-than-osx windows 10. then six+ months passes, I somehow forget about all this and repeat.
surface tablets would be a killer machine if I could dual boot linux on it for serious work.
- zozbot234 6y agoBayTrail and CherryTrail hardware has been like that for a very long time, now it works flawlessly. And there's a LOT of it in the used market - lots and lots of crappy Win8 and Win10-based "tablets" that can now become far more usable with Linux and the Gnome UX.
- halotrope 6y agoInstalling this kernel makes it work amazing: https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface
- notpiika 6y agoI'd recommend the actively maintained https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface instead, which has support for newer Surface devices as well.
- masnao 6y agosee this is what i mean. every kernel has pros and cons. all of them are wonderful until you hit a con.
- rowanG077 6y agowhat issues have you been running into? I have been running Linux on the Surface Pro 5 solely without even having windows to dual boot for almost 3 years now.