I would like to share with you a very cool project that develops drivers for correct operation of Microsoft Surface devices on Linux. I myself use Surface Pro 6 with these drivers and everything works like a charm (battery life is good, cameras work, stylus, keyboard, touchscreen, screen). The developers are gods. From myself, I would recommend using Fedora Linux distribution, as I got the best battery life on it and didn’t experience any additional bugs. If you don’t like GNOME, you can try spins.

Links to project resources:

Awesome additional resources:

  • Theophylaktos@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    I really like the Dell 5290 2-in-1. Not a surface but with 16 gigs of ram and an Intel i7-8650 CPU its a very capable tablet. It runs Linux well and everything just works. The downside is most DE’s are not optimized for a tablet. I found KDE with the maliit-keyboard is the most usable combination.

    • FarLine99@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Awesome configuration. Also use Plasma with Maliit keyboard. Also found it the best configuration!

      • Theophylaktos@lemmy.fmhy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Fedora has plasma-mobile available if you want to try a more traditional tablet interface. The downside is the settings for it conflict with the plasma desktop so you have to start with a clean config folder. Kinda interesting to play around with but found the desktop more to my liking.

      • Theophylaktos@lemmy.fmhy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Looks like they do not work. After doing some online searches I see people asking but no solutions. You would need a stand alone USB camera if you needed that functionality.