My last try to acclimate with a #MSWindows OS was years ago after I left IBM when I bought a #SurfaceGo tablet. It didn’t work. Even though I liked the hardware, I didn’t use it.
Now I’ve given it a second life. I set it up with #Ubuntu #Linux using the #SurfaceLinux project.

Everything works fine but the pen. But Ian not sure if the pen still works at all.

#surfacego #ubuntu #linux #surfacelinux #didit #dutgemacht

How is your surfacelinux-journey going?

https://feddit.org/post/24549668

How is your surfacelinux-journey going? - feddit.org

Hey folks! How is your surfacelinux-experience so far? Which hardware do you use and which distro brings the best experience at the moment in your opinion? (Currently I’m using Ubuntu on my SP9, but I’m curious if there are already equal or better options, since I’m not really a fan of Ubuntu…) Have a nice day! ~sp3ctre

Falls jemand das gleiche tun möchte:
Seid euch bewusst, dass das #SurfaceLinux Projekt und vor allem die ipts-Treiber nur sehr schleppend entwickelt werden und ihr aktuell auf einem Surface Pro 7 nur madige 60hz Rate für den Pen bekommt - zum normal Zeichnen leider aktuell absolut unbrauchbar. Ich hoffe das schläft nicht ein - u-blue, cachy OS und ich glaube auch noch ein paar andere haben wegen den lansamen updates den Kernel schon aus den Standard ISOs geworfen....

So I'm trying out #Fedora 43's #KDE spin on my #SurfacePro 9 with a live USB. I know about #SurfaceLinux if I decide to go all in with it. The network browser in Dolphin seems to be using '.local' for my instead of the search domain configured in /etc/resolv.conf. This seems to cause authentication to fail trying to access shares. I can manually type in the right hostname, but curious why it's putting that '.local' in there at all.

#Linux #LinuxHelp

How to deal with video projectors not supporting Surface's 3:2 aspect ratio ?

https://jlai.lu/post/27582516

How to deal with video projectors not supporting Surface's 3:2 aspect ratio ? - jlai.lu

Hi, When connecting to a video projector in duplicate mode, the Surface monitor has to be set to a resolution with an aspect ratio of 16:9 because video projectors don’t support 3:2. Is there any way to keep the Surface monitor at optimal resolution and aspect ratio while sending a resized 16:9 video to the projector, i.e. displaying black borders on the external monitor instead of the internal one ? Thanks

Switched my Surface pro 7 to Fedora today, in no small part thanks to the good people maintaining #surfacelinux
All in order, this will make a nice drawing tablet for the little ones, without all the #windows11 bullshit and spyware.
Not gonna lie, this one feels extra special 😄
1/3 So I repurposed an old microsoft #surfacepro4 by installing #ubuntu with the help of #surfacelinux . Since I wanted to fix it to the wall as a dashboard and central control panel for my #homeassistant setup, It would need to be switched on permanently. As old batteries go, the surface wouldn't hold on to life that long and therefore needed to be connected to its charger permanently. Batteries do not like to be charged constantly.
Had an old MS Surface Book first gen we originally got for my wife. She stopped using it a long time ago. I kicked win10 off of it this week and installed PopOS and surface-Linux and it’s working pretty great as like a living room browse the web kind of laptop now. Haven’t tried the pen because I don’t have a AAAA battery for it. #linux #surfacelinux

@gnnr

Hätte ich nie gedacht: Ich bin begeistert von den Microsoft- Produkten Surface Pro 5 und den Jubiläums-Crocs!

Endlich gibt es für mich ein Super Linux-Tablet - die Hardware des MS Surface ist von beeindruckender Qualität und zu schade für den Elektroschrott.

Alle Vorbereitungen sind getroffen Windows 10 durch ein MX Linux, den MX Respin GNOME zu ersetzen.

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Installation-and-Setup

#ByeWindows
#EndOf10
#linux
#switchtolinux
#Debian
#MXLinux
#SurfaceLinux

I took a pristine Microsoft Surface Pro 6 tablet from 2017 that was about to be disposed, installed Ubuntu with the SurfaceLinux kernel, installed Bitwig, and... got a powerful, portable and responsive electronic instrument!

In (slightly) more detail: https://bitwish.top/t/bitwig-on-a-surface-tablet-in-2025/6872/5?u=icaria36

#Ubuntu #SurfaceLinux #Bitwig #Tablet #LinuxAudio

Bitwig on a Surface tablet in 2025?

Spoiler: Bitwig works on a Surface Pro 6 tablet with Linux (yes, it turns out it’s a 6 and not a 5 as I thought). This is what I did, taking as a reference Installation and Setup · linux-surface/linux-surface Wiki · GitHub 🙂 Create a Windows recovery USB drive (because I had no access to the original password, recovery key, Microsoft account…) Go through all the Windows updates available (I ended up with Windows 11 from 2022 or something like that). Create a plain Ubuntu USB driv...

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