I finally got around to giving my old Surface Laptop 2 a second life with Linux. I went with Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition, and I’m really glad I did.
How does the touch screen work with linux mint? Does it?
I adore Linux Mint, it’s my goto workhorse distro. If I need a general use computer that I want to #JustWork I throw Linux Mint on it.
… Linux Mint kept coming up as one of the best choices for people used to Windows …
i switched jobs recently and my new employer gave me a windows 11 workstation.
i learned the hard way that i can no longer effectively use the gui driven interface and i think it’s because i haven’t used windows in an real capacity for the last 15 years and my difficulty with it became clear to my management, so i ended up getting a mac.
ever since then, when i read statements like the one i took from the article above, it makes me wonder if i should do the same thing considering my difficulty w windows as it currently is.
I run fedora 42 gnome on a surface pro 7+ that needed a new home. Great tablet. I do not like the touch screen keyboard resizing when I type to suggest words, but I haven’t found a way to address that.
Other than that, it has been great.
Wait wifi doesn’t work with the Surface Kernel?
if I’m understanding right it had stopped working for them on Windows too…
Great job! I’ve always avoided Surfaces because the guides to running Linux on them are always like 30 pages long.