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Just installed Fedora 41 KDE on a Windows tablet from 2016. Touchscreen works out of the box, but autorotation doesn't. Anyway, I'm happy. It's an Atom with 2 Gigs of RAM (nowhere near Surface), and it lives again! Fedora runs surprisingly smooth on such a low-spec hardware.
id love to play balatro on that thing โฅ
Kinda wonder if Zorin OS would work on this too
I just need to know if this would work with the stylus
I wonder if itโd fix mine with the crappy screen fault
Just one question for everyone on which versions of Surface Pro can install linux?
Please answer.
I have always felt that GTK apps and Gnome (much like the Metro UI on Windows) are geared towards touchscreen devices more than keyboard and mouse, so Iโm glad to see Gnome and GTK being used with a touchscreen device.
The Surface Pro 3 was the last one that turns the whole boot screen red
8:15 how did he put shortcut on the screen?
if u want to maintain use of ubuntu as your everyday machine, just install clonezilla and made a image your OS machine so that if anything go south, u able to restore back
I have a Surface Pro 3 running Windows 10. I'm planning to install Ubuntu on it before Windows 10 EOL. The surface Pro 3 has an Intel Core i5 4300U CPU, 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. The Surface Pro 3 is still fast and can run Linux. I'm thinking about transitioning from Windows 10 to Ubuntu.
I've been using endeavorOS on my surface pro 3 with plasma and it's absolutely amazing. Very snappy
ardenn and rograkkh is very strong
The Ubuntu installer says there isn't enough space to install. Gparted does not show the internal disk, whereas disks shows a bunch of loopback devices.
Windows is no longer on the device. Is there any way I can access the internal disk to wipe it?
the linux kernal sucks compared to base
have fedora on mine
๐ถInstalling Ubuntu just cause I want to; it's kinda fun to Ubuntu.๐ถ
it's not quad core. ๐ it's dual core and four threads.
I would recommend ChromeOS Flex for that typeof device
Would be cool to install Android x86 on this thing
Ubuntu Linux with their modified GNOME dock is in my view superior to both Apple and Microsoft's UI for surface devices. It just feels way better to use. The only huge issue? Touchscreen not enabled by default, have to use terminal to get it going. That is a big drawback for most people.
I use clearlinux on my surface go 2, and it works like a charm. Gnome runs faster than any other distro and I can even play robloxon it via Sober without any lag.
That's the pretties BIOS tho.
This is perfect timing! I just sold my Surface Pro 6 to a friend and they wanted to install Ubuntu, then your video uploaded a couple days ago!!!! He's even more excited to try Ubuntu on it since Windows 11 is slower on the surface pro 6
I did this to my Surface Pro 7 with a I-3 and 4GB Ram. The camera was the only thing that did not work. Very pleased with the results.
haha, i installed ubuntu on my old surface pro 3 yesterday.
Would you mind testing Xournal++ with annotating PDFs? How is the finger powered zoom and scroll?
I wonder if I can try installing it on Amazon fire tablet.
Does the camera work well? How is the Surface Pen working in Ubuntu? Greetings and thanks for the video
Any touch right click support?
I did this with my old surface (can remember which version) and it works great. Except that I wanted to use it with krita and the pen.
The pen works, but it can't handle Krita.
As someone who grew up in the old school BIOS era, touchscreen UEFI will never not be weird to me ๐
Iโm sure there is a way to make touchscreen works just like Ubuntu Touch OS