krash,

For those intrested, I created a !surfacelinux community here on Lemmy to collect information regarding linux on surface devices. Mods and contributors welcome!

!surfacelinuxPing @PerogiBoi @-spam-@kbin.social @TeaEarlGrayHot

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Theoretically the older models are more likely to work better.

I've got an sp3 that I want to throw something with gnome on to mess with. Haven't tried it yet but from what I've seen it all works out of the box, including the pen and pressure support.

TechProfessor,

Wow. That's wonderful.

gogozero,
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im running debian sid on a surface go 2, stock kernel. everything except the cameras work perfectly (use the surface-linux kernel if you want the cameras to work). love this little device, my daily driver.

TechProfessor,

That’s good to hear. Thanks.

PerogiBoi,
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I’m currently running Fedora 38 on a Surface Pro 6!

I’ve installed Fedora on a Surface Pro 4 and a Surface Pro 7 as well.

Super duper simple. Runs well and snappy. I prefer it to Windows.

The only downside is the battery life on standby is very bad (like all Linux distros).

tubbadu,

Is the stylus well integrated?

PerogiBoi,
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Not as good as Windows no. It acts like a mouse input but pressure sensitivity works well (as well as the eraser) in Krita.

TechProfessor,

Okay. And everything is working?

saba,

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.

silent_clash, (edited )

I don't know exactly which distro, but GNOME has a lot of convenient touch screen gestures built in.

Edit: Cinnamon 5.8 just introduced touch screen gestures as well!

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