Testing PostMarketOS On MS Surface GO 2
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Testing Generic x86 edge PostMarketOS with gnome on my MS Surface GO. It's the best linux experience I have had on it. I want to test plasma mobile next.

I haven’t had a great time with Linux on a tablet without a keyboard and mouse but PostmarketOS is 100% usable IMO. Even the on screen keyboard on the login screen works.

  • en1gma@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • colourlesspony@pawb.socialOP
      4·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        24 hours ago

        Daily driving a Surface Go 1 with Fedora since 2022.

        It works really well except for cameras, sometimes bluetooth and being laggy 1 time out of maybe 30 startups.

        The last problem can be solved just by plugging and unplugging the usb-c cable connecting it to a screen.

        I’m really happy with it even if it’s not what I’d bought if I had gotten back to Linux already when I got it.

        • Hellmo_luciferrari@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Not saying it can’t be done. I know it can. And glad it can. Gives people who locked into buying a M$ product the option. That’s part of the beauty of Linux and open source.

          I just would never recommend anyone to go buy a surface for the sole purpose of running Linux.

          I ran Arch on mine when I had it. And it had its drawbacks. When I bought my next machine, a Lenivo, I had so much better support. It made the whole experience that much better.

          I hate Microsoft. And I hope they crumble. Every last bit of them.