Hi everyone! I know im not good with technology. I brought a surface pro 8, 3 years ago. I obviously understand that was a mistake and i should have listened to programmer cousin. Its gonna be slighty difficult to install linux on it.
I’ve researched several youtube videos, but i was wondering if anyone had any tips?Obviously the attachable keyboard has to work and i want the touch screen to work. The surface appealed to me when i brought for those features.
With all the privacy concerns of windows, i want to commit to switching my operating system! Thank you everyone for their help with all my privacy questions. Ive been getting into foss and learning kotlin.
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I’ve a Pro 7 with Fedora. Best decision ever. I don’t miss anything from Windows. And better yet, PRIVATE!!!
To get you started, check this: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface
Thanks so muchh!
to add to what others already said, the work from linux-surface is being adopted in the mainline, so it is possible that your hardware is already supported in a modern distro, like Fedora. boot it off a live USB image and poke around, you’ll get a better feel for it.
pro tip, at the GRUB menu press ‘e’ to edit the first item and then add
rd.live.ramand that should load the image to RAM. you can then remove the USB and it’ll be way faster to navigate and it won’t touch your existing SSD install.Dude. I’ve been using Linux since 1995, and I never knew about
rd.live.ram.I don’t use grub much anymore with UEFI around, but for those bootable USBs that’s gold.
MVP
that’s for Fedora, for Ubuntu it’s
toramI think? or was that for older versions… Esc during boot to verify, if it goes “loading to RAM” then you know it’s working.It’s not a grub function? Bummer. My rescue images are either Arch or Alpine.
I have a surface 8 pro too and the easiest way to set it up was to use Aurora (or bluefin if you prefer Gnome). All the drivers were preloaded and if you want to use luks with the tpm it is a breeze to setup.
You can achieve the same with other distros, I’ve done it with Arch and Nixos too but if you don’t have a solid Linux background I strongly suggest Aurora or Bluefin for an easy and solid installation.
Ill check it out!! Thanks so much!
I run Kubuntu on my surface pro 8, with the surface linux kernal. Everything works except the webcam but I feel that will be fixed soon.
Thats what im concerned about! But i guess if you plug in a web cam you’ll have a camera? Thats what im hoping?
I have never tried it myself, but as it seems to be a driver issue with the built in cam, I don’t see any reason why a USB one wouldn’t work
Yeahh truu, sounds like a good idea! Honestly i hope someome figures that out because im not tech savvy enough for that🤣🤣
