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For those intrested, I created a !surfacelinux@lemmy.ml community here on Lemmy to collect information regarding linux on surface devices. Mods and contributors welcome!
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saw this recently: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface but I don't own one. I was just curious about it and found that project.
do you even need a custom kernel anymore? i think most of the patches are upstream nowadays.
I don't know. I was just curious about microsoft surface and if linux could run on it and found that in a search.
I have ubuntu on a surface go 1 and it's running better than stock windows (except for IR camera). On the SP7 it was working decently on the latest ubuntu release - even the WiFi OOTB. However, touch screen wasn't working (ootb - custom kernel can enable it) and that was a deal breaker for me. I still need windows to boot from USB (!) as the device was designed this way, so don't count on being totally defenenestraded. You will need windows for firmware updates too.
Check out the Linux surface repo mentioned earlier, it's full of good resources for Linux on surface device's.
Thanks for the detailed reply.