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I have a surface go 1 running (currently) PopOS, but have been on Kubuntu also. It's a great travel computer, combined with a USB-C dock, mini keyboard, bluetoo
by smallerfish 4y ago
I have a surface go 1 running (currently) PopOS, but have been on Kubuntu also. It's a great travel computer, combined with a USB-C dock, mini keyboard, bluetooth headphones and a wireless trackball. I use it to run chrome, zoom, bitwig, and the terminal; I don't think I've ever attempted intellij on it, but it would probably be ok (that said the screen size is too small for me to really want to code on it).
Things have steadily gotten better in terms of support via linux-surface, but it's definitely on the wild-west edge of the linux universe; current issues:
1) The wifi driver isn't in the mainline kernel yet for whatever reason. After doing a dist upgrade you have to copy the driver into two locations. This is documented on linux-surface's site; I wrote a script to do it, and it's not that bad.
2) Camera doesn't work. Gives me a good excuse to do off-camera zooms while travelling. :)
3) PopOS specific issue: cannot run their system updater with the linux-surface PPA active. This is really annoying, and probably enough reason for me to just switch back to Kubuntu on it. (Also, I don't like Gnome's insistence on switching to lodpi mode, despite my having set up fractional scaling).
- LAC-Tech 4y ago1) The wifi driver isn't in the mainline kernel yet for whatever reason. After doing a dist upgrade you have to copy the driver into two locations. This is documented on linux-surface's site; I wrote a script to do it, and it's not that bad. That's a very Debian issue. It's the only distro where I've ever had to do silly things like that.
- ArtWomb 4y agoI've got a vintage Surface One. 32-bit, WinRT. I'd love to just even run a cross compiled golang binary on it. If I recall correctly, even Dropbox wouldn't install. But I've never been tempted to boot linux into it, just because its such an esoteric device, even though the nvidia popos image works. The Adobe paint program is rather elegant. And perhaps the device can run MAME ;)