What distribution do you recommend for a Surface Pro 8 tablet?
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I am sick of windows, I have Fedora KDE Plasma 6 on my main pc, and I want to migrate to Linux on my tablet, too, even if I lose some functionality. I also have a stylus for it. I know there are apps that work with it on Linux.
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I am sick of windows, I have Fedora KDE Plasma 6 on my main pc, and I want to migrate to Linux on my tablet, too, even if I lose some functionality. I also have a stylus for it. I know there are apps that work with it on Linux.
I briefly used Fedora (Gnome) on my SP7 which worked super well. Then I moved to NixOS because I'm a nerd
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I am sick of windows, I have Fedora KDE Plasma 6 on my main pc, and I want to migrate to Linux on my tablet, too, even if I lose some functionality. I also have a stylus for it. I know there are apps that work with it on Linux.
Check out the Linux Surface project
https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Supported-Devices-and-Features#feature-matrixThe Surface Pro 8 looks to have everything supported, except for the camera.
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I am sick of windows, I have Fedora KDE Plasma 6 on my main pc, and I want to migrate to Linux on my tablet, too, even if I lose some functionality. I also have a stylus for it. I know there are apps that work with it on Linux.
On a surface you should use the surface kernel and its patches: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface
If I were you I would pick one from the well documented distro from its wiki: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Installation-and-Setup#surface-kernel-installation
Obviously it should be possible to install it on any distro, but you can save yourself from a headache if you just follow a tutorial, if you have never done such a thing.
It's also usually easier if you have the same distro on both of your computers, so you don't have to think about which computer are you on, it's simpler if everything is the same.
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I briefly used Fedora (Gnome) on my SP7 which worked super well. Then I moved to NixOS because I'm a nerd
I’m curious how it worked on NixOS.
Do you happen to have any Nix config files you can share? -
On a surface you should use the surface kernel and its patches: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface
If I were you I would pick one from the well documented distro from its wiki: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Installation-and-Setup#surface-kernel-installation
Obviously it should be possible to install it on any distro, but you can save yourself from a headache if you just follow a tutorial, if you have never done such a thing.
It's also usually easier if you have the same distro on both of your computers, so you don't have to think about which computer are you on, it's simpler if everything is the same.
Thanks for the response, I've been tinkering, and before I read your message, I already started configuring the kernel for the surface. Now I am calibrating the touch. Sometimes, I wished I had something else than the surface, preferably something with an AMD processor... life would be a lot easier...
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I briefly used Fedora (Gnome) on my SP7 which worked super well. Then I moved to NixOS because I'm a nerd
I've never used NexOS. I'm a beginner with Linux, started with the steam deck, fell in love with it, tried bazzite on my main pc, hated the non-imutability of the os and then went to Fedora KDE Plasma, and I love it, everything is just easy to use. But I was thinking of trying Arch KDE. (SomeOrdinaryGamer made a video recently with Arch, and it intrigued me)
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I've never used NexOS. I'm a beginner with Linux, started with the steam deck, fell in love with it, tried bazzite on my main pc, hated the non-imutability of the os and then went to Fedora KDE Plasma, and I love it, everything is just easy to use. But I was thinking of trying Arch KDE. (SomeOrdinaryGamer made a video recently with Arch, and it intrigued me)
I'd say arch is a great distro if you love to tinker a lot and/or want to learn a lot about the Linux ecosystem. If you don't recognize yourself in previous sentence I'd probably stick with fedora
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I’m curious how it worked on NixOS.
Do you happen to have any Nix config files you can share?Sadly I kept it private because it exposes a bit of my company's network structure (with encrypted secrets, but still...)
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I'd say arch is a great distro if you love to tinker a lot and/or want to learn a lot about the Linux ecosystem. If you don't recognize yourself in previous sentence I'd probably stick with fedora
In fact, I do find myself in the sentence, I tinker with all types of stuff, I wouldn't have tried all of this if I didn't also like it. I could always be comfortable and stay with Windows, but Linux is fun and and it teaches me a lot about operating systems and networking.
Thanks for your words, now I think I will try going with Arch, I decided. -
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