Linux On A Microsoft Surface Is AWESOME

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Chapters:

00:00 - Linux On A Microsoft Surface Is AWESOME
01:29 - What works on the device?
01:47 - Why Linux is better than Windows
04:10 - What if it was perfect?
05:04 - How to install Linux on the Surface
06:10 - My personal experience so far

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[MichaelNROH]

Currently, only Fedora is officially supported, but the script can easily be altered.

[giusn]

I have a Surface Book 2. I just installed Fedora 36 and HOLY COW!
Basically everything works perfectly, including the detach, the camera and the pen.
The pen even works better than in Windows 11 with Xournal++.

[mstarOnYT]

Got myself a Surface Go 3 for Uni last year and Fedora works way better then Windows. Everything except for the cameras worked just as expected. Now, with the latest kernel release from the linux-surface team those work too. Need a bit of fine-tuning, but they work good enough already. Am happy with my choice

[jaspervirtual]

Microsoft ：Why Surface is better than Apple silicon MacBook?
Linux User ：because it can run Linux

[Julian_H]

Got a Surface Go 3 and installed ubuntu on it - I'd be lying if I said I had no issues, but after getting most things resolved it's now almost a perfect device for a cs student. Great for taking notes with xournal++, plus all the benefits of development you get with linux, and considering the low specs it's all very smooth.

[DrFizzyQuizzler]

I had the Original Surface Pro back in and around 2015, it came with windows 8 installed, but within about a year I had Ubuntu installed on it. almost nothing worked, even the WIFI was not working and I had to buy a wifi dongle for it. but it was amazing to me. fast forward about 2 years later and almost everything worked with the stock Ubuntu Kernel. glad to see that I wasn't the only one crazy enough to do this.

[uwuifyingransomware]

I'm very excited to install linux on my new surface, it's a bit of a learning curve since I've never used things like shim for validation. Was initially going to install it with arch (that's what I use on my desktop), I did try that and had some issues with secureboot and shim, going to try again but I have to say fedora does look appealing for this purpose.

[kerimtim]

5:32 Wow I never thought that this setting would be hidden deep down there, I've been trying this all day. Thank you man

[josegarita]

I own a SP 7, been using Linux and windows hopping that the touch drivers will get better and to have pen support, the developers added pen support a month ago, since then I just removed windows out of my life

[MyurrDurr]

I love Fedora too!
Somehow it only uses 6gb of storage space on my laptops SSD upon install!
Really great

[daddie]

i tried 2 linux distro on my surface go (manjaro, debian) and now i'm using it with FideOs(chromeOS with android support) and it work wonderfully

[coffeeflush]

Subscribed due to this video. For me lack of camera support is the negative, but as soon as that is added, I am moving away. Win 11 killed my tablets performance and battery. But really looking forward to this.
Great video, look forward to your content.

[sujeewa]

Linux is getting better for every single thing! Yay go linux!

[kote]

I don't like gnome on desktops (I prefer more classic GUIs), but on touch screen it can be really good. Something like this would be the perfect device for me to study (previously) and work (now). That is, I need a small lightweight computer with different physical ports and a fully functional OS. At one time, such devices were netbooks, but now they, as a class of devices, are practically dead. Android tablets are not suitable for me - they usually do not have the necessary ports (usb, ethernet, etc.), and the OS is too limited. Great for fun, but not for work. So a Windows or Linux tablet with a physical keyboard seems ideal. The only problem is that these are either unusable Chinese junk or rather expensive models.

[fennecbesixdouze]

The tough part for me here is longevity. I bought a Chromebook in a similar circumstance and lucked out: I bought it because it was very cheap and people had patched the Linux kernel to support all the hardware on it so I figured I could run Linux. For a while it was a bit frustrating to use the patched kernel, because it took a while to bring down upstream changes. Luckily within a few years, the hardware on my Chromebook was supported natively on the Linux kernel itself, and I could abandon the custom patched kernel.

As long as it is relatively promising that hardware support for these devices will make their way upstream into the Linux kernel itself at some point, I'd be comfortable purchasing a Surface tablet to run Linux. However, I'm a bit wary as I don't know how sure of a thing that is. If for some reason the hardware support doesn't make its way upstream, or the developers on surface-kernel abandon the project, I'd be left a sad camper.

[speedyfox]

This is sure to be cool. I owned a surface but next I sold it because I got in love with my Thinkpad

[EeshanShukla]

Loved this video. Never thought about buying a Surface before this.
Thanks

[matthewsjardine]

I can agree with a lot of what you said, except for the battery life claim. I love Linux, and it is my preferred OS, but I have never gotten anywhere near as good battery life out of my devices on Linux, as compared to their native operating systems of Windows or macOS. I have used multiple devices, from multiple manufacturers, and with different performance profiles... I systematically get 2 hours less on Linux than I do on Windows.

It has been my only real gripe with Linux. I am far from the only one that has had this experience. My colleagues have experienced the same, and it is also something I see a lot in the community forums. There are utilities that can make the experience better, but out of the box, do not expect better battery performance.

[brettdent]

Awesome video! Installing Fedora as I type this! Looking forward to the power profiles so hopefully will prevent eating my battery life.

[gmt]

I have Fedora 36 stock on an Acer 2-in-1 and everything 'just works'. Touchscreen is good, touchpad gestures fantastic, it even auto-detects when I flip into tablet mode. Battery life is also better without Windows 10 scanning for 'viruses' 12 times in a row everyday. I don't use encryption, but it is free on Linux and not for Windows Home. Much snappier overall. Recently switched to Fedora 36 on my Windows 11 desktop and its great (although I can't get Davinci Resolve working at all).