Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

v4ld1z@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Toribor@corndog.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been running Bazzite on an old 1st gen Surface Book Pro that I had laying around. Touch screen and all the fancy keyboard stuff works great.

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• towerful@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A quick Google reveals github.com/…/Supported-Devices-and-Features#featu…

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you really need a custom kernel for the surface devices?

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t. But the person I replied to said they were having trouble with Linux on a surface.
      So, that’s a project dedicated to Linux on surfaces. I would presume they had tried the usual distros and found them lacking

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• DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you looked into Mint?

  The linux mint forums make it seem like it works out of the box. I know that it worked out of the box for my Thinkpad x380, even the touchscreen, pen, and screen rotation.

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  • ordellrb@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same on my thinkpad y370

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    • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same on my e6520 latitude

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• maxinstuff@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m running Ubuntu on a Surface Laptop Studio. I really like it, though I have not yet gotten the touchscreen and pen working.

  If I figure it out (and I remember) I’ll let you know.

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• s_s@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your hardware has to have support for Linux, not the other way around.

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• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Idk Journal but you can give Xournal a try, it works pretty well and you can arrange all the buttons to your liking

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• madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mint is the only version you have a chance of liking if you are coming from windows. I know windows sucks and people low to pump Linux but most distros simply aren’t user friendly.

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  • v4ld1z@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for the insight. I tried my hands at Kubuntu on an old laptop of mine and didn’t mind the few differences too much. From what I’ve heard on Lemmy, Mint seems to be a good all-around suggestion for new Linux users, though

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• stan_stanminson@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Idk man but try OpenSuse, It’s pretty cool. Here is the review that make me install it

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