Big thanks for this. Been thinking about what to do with my daughter’s Surface Book once Win10 is EOL and it looks like Nobara will be the first and hopefully final stop.
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Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoclears throat
Surface Linux Kernel. Surface 10 supported.
Some distros of Linux that have SLK rolled in:
- Based on fedora
- Made by GloriousEggroll who also is responsible for protonGE a great derivative of the Steam Proton compatibility layer for playing windows games on Linux
- Development and maintaining it is done by a single dude, so if something happens to him, that’s the project done, this is not in the Pros section.
- for when you really just want your surface device to be running Android
- immutable distro, makes it easier to undo fuck ups, and often prevents them happening at all
- seems fairly mature and robust, I don’t know for a fact as I haven’t used it
- for when you want to put a bit more effort in
- the instructions here are from building Gentoo locally using and Arch LiveISO
- FOR WHEN YOU WANT TO PUT MORE EFFORT IN
These were the really easy to find options. There’s absolutely going to be more that have SLK rolled in…but that’s not actually necessary, as the SLK git has easy to follow instructions on rolling it into whatever distro might interest you. The whole Linux universe is your oyster.
I have a Surface Pro 4, and I run Nobara, works great, better than windows. There are some hardware things that don’t 100% work on some surface devices. Here is the Supported device list and Features Matrix. Looks like the SP10 doesn’t like to hibernate, and doesn’t have working cameras atm.
banshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
No worries bud! It really makes me angry what M$ is doing here, obviously they’re not alone in being a cause of our eWaste “addiction”…but this is really a situation that should be opening people’s eyes. Apple is bad for it too. Their laptops have a fairly short lifecycle, and unless you want/can to put Linux on your MacBook whatever, it’s no longer secure after usually about 5 years. Intentionally driving the disposable culture, buy, use briefly, replace for arguably too much, repeat.
Have her try Nobara for a week, but tell her it’s hardly the only option! With how easy it is to include SLK into (almost?) any distro, I really wasn’t kidding when I said the Linux Universe is your oyster! Hell, you could compile your own distro if you’re a masochist!
realitista@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t really solve my OneNote problem, as I run it on no fewer than 7 macOS, windows, iOS, and android devices.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Joplin has apps for all UNIX-likes(Mac, Win and Lin,) iOS(phone and pad variants), and Android. It can import Evernote and OneNote. It’s built to E2EE notes to cloud services, currently supporting: Joplin Cloud, Nextcloud, S3, WebDAV, Dropbox, OneDrive or the local file system.
If you’d like to fully tell M$ to get fucked…I can recommend self hosting NextCloud.
Not incredibly difficult to set up, I’m fairly fluent in Linux systems…but by no means a “Wizard”, and my self hosting knowledge is extremely minimal.
There’s other options out there, but Joplin has all the apps…
realitista@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Do any of those focus primarily on handwriting for input and support macOS, android, and windows for offline input?
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Yep!
See point #2. Hand written notes can be kept as is, one thing that’s not mentioned in that link is that Joplin can also use OCR to change handwriting to typed.