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I've been messing around with Linux on some old Surfaces I pulled from the recycling cart at work. Linux on the laptop is fine, but boy howdy has it been a bad
by PrivateButts 4y ago
I've been messing around with Linux on some old Surfaces I pulled from the recycling cart at work. Linux on the laptop is fine, but boy howdy has it been a bad time on a tablet device. Wayland seems to have really thrown a wrench in the works. I tested:
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Login screen showed the on screen keyboard (OSK) after enabling it in the accessibility menu, but had annoyances like shift staying on after hitting a key
- Gnome was okay as a tablet interface, but OSK didn't work in non GTK apps, including Firefox
- Autorotate worked once, but then never worked again
- After waking up from sleep, the device would go back to sleep after 1 minute, regardless of what I was doing.
- Kubuntu 22.04 LTS was like using a desktop OS with only a mouse. No autorotate or OSK
- Fedora ran so poorly I gave up on it before testing it thoroughly
- Manjaro had a working OSK throughout the OS, but autorotate was busted. It had the same sleep issue after Ubuntu.
In addition, the camera didn't work in every OS I tried. I eventually just put W10 back on them.