Very cool, thanks. How did you pair the pen?

How's the battery life compared to Android?

So far it seems really good. I haven't tested it to much though.

I don't think they need pairing. It just worked for me. It's a generic one off amazon. The Microsoft one I got with the tablet broke after month and the replacement one also broke after a month. I'm still kind of mad about it like 4 year later.

I've been meaning to do something like this to my Lenovo tablet but I was afraid that the battery life would suck; thanks for the info

So...you just took it out of the box and it paired automatically? What's to stop it from pairing to the wrong device?

I think the tablet was just using it as a normal touchscreen. Therefore nothing to pair.

I've recently installed ZorinOS on my Surface Go 2 as part of my migration away from US software. Had a great experience too so far, way faster than Windows 11 like 2-3x faster which is crucial as my base model only has 4GB RAM.

Only issue is my camera isn't working, but I rarely used it (unfortunately still have a work laptop for teams calls). Now just need to migrate rest of services away from Microsoft account and close it.

Amazing that it works so well, nice!

However I can't help thinking usability improvements are urgent. The key one being how you need to bring up the menu with a 2 finger slide up, and then click again on the right button to get the list of apps, which is not even user friendly.
Then, clicking on the top right window button to close the app, which you seemed to have difficulties to click on (with good reasons).

Finally you drag and drop a lot, can't you click on the music file directly without opening the app in parallel?

So, h264 video playback at 1080px works flawlessly, and flac audio. What about

• other codecs
• hardware accel, e.g. for h265?

x86, ARM, are intended to be multipurpose, right? So why tf does the OS running on it need multiple layers of abstraction and have the right drivers to support common features? Wouldn't it be possible to standardize the interfaces for audio, hw video acceleration, etc. so that you just need one audio driver for all x86 CPUs, another for ARM and be done?

I also tested Linux on the Surface 2 Go once, I think Fedora, but it just wasn't smooth and stable enough. Constantly some kind of misbehavior. So I went back to Windows after all.

Did you use the linux-surface kernel? It has additional community maintained patches for surface devices and detailed installation instructions for the best linux experience. From their feature matrix they seem to have full support for sgo2.

Not sure if its available on pmOS though.

The CPU might be the same, but the audio chip, trackpad, etc. might be different and require a new driver.

First mistake was using a microsoft device.

The app launcher UI is hilarious, the name is too long so it adds 3 more periods to it and cuts off even more of the name.

I'm wondering about that too and I think that this question deserves another thread. Maybe that's because there are no (or are there?) PCs with other architectures than x86, vendors don't see a need for standards like device discovery and UEFI.

No, if I figure out pmbootstrap and make a custom image I will try to get the custom kernel in. So far everything but the cameras seem to work.

Yeah, I firefox and the login screen didn't work well with the onscreen keyboard when I tried fedora. I ended up using it with the keyboard attahed. That's why I was so excited when everything worked with PostmarketOS.