Yeah, I get so burned by how dismissive the Linux community is about things in general. For what it's worth, I have the Surface Go 2 running Debian. However, I did the more unhinged approach of "I dont want any dang desktop environments, this should be like a tablet with its restrictions removed". It works, but it wasn't without pain.
ran into similar issues with the touchpad scrolling in GNOME and also went through that whole process to change it absolutely ridiculous... they really have to add something in the settings bc it makes it almost unusable for me thankfully KDE plasma has an actual UI for changing this easily & you can also adjust the touchpad scroll speed in firefox in about:config, mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_x/y/z
parsec IS available as a flatpak on flathub. maybe not when this video came out so maybe you should go back to fedora now as it worked the best for you. I dunno why you're complaining so much, this is a surface tablet. it's made by microsoft for microsoft. The fact that linux runs at all is a testament of the work done by volunteers. Volunteers that aren't spying on you every 3 minutes. You should mitigate your expectations. I have 4 surface pro latops that I put linux on, fedora, EndeavorOS , ubuntu and OpenSUSE tumbleweed on the GO. of the 4 EndeavorOS is my favorite of the 4 distros, but it's not perfect. nowhere near perfect. Opensuse had the best out of the box experience. Fedora is nice but IDK why, I just don't like it. Ubuntu is the toyota or honda of linux, nothing flashy, it will just work. To me, cameras are not a factor cameras worked on ubuntu, fedora. not on suse and on endeavor, I can get it to where it sees the cameras but doesn't connect to them.
whats up pinoy - glad you're liking linux on that surface go. cool video! I tried rpm based but just need more apps and more familiar with Debian. This guy found some methods to boot the surface 2 go: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jy2TiXc543Y.htmlsi=TRqDEKO-hEM80VJj
Windows will bog down that tablet, but so would Ubuntu LMAO I hope your soul has had the spiritual healing required after attempting to break through Microsoft's special curated Fort Knox I think the Lenovo Yoga tablets MIGHT actually work a lot better than MS's locked down hellscape tablet.
Stumbled across this video by accident. I stayed due to the fact that this video was done exceptionally well! I'm currently upgrading my laptop, but no CD drive on my laptop, so no reason to stay. Everything was well explained and brought down to speed for those that may have trouble understanding all of the tech abbreviations, or lingo. I've subscribed, and I hope you're still making videos like this.
I put some android x86 on it before, and now just end up using the go with windows 11 for RDP another windows 11.... Somehow the window RDP is the best to remote another RDP computer....
I tried using Linux on my Go 3 6500Y 8GB model. The biggest problem is actually cooling and processor, especially when hooking onto a monitor. Current browsers and websites are just a bit too much for this processor inside of such a limited chassis. I encountered several blank screens due to overheating.
Hi there! I am currently looking to buy a surface go (1st gen or maybe 2nd gen, have not decided yet) to use for coding (I am starting to learn coding and looking for backend blockchain development) and need to use it when outside the home (i have a pretty decent pc at home) was wondering if using linux would be better for this purpose compared to windows and if so, which one should i install? Thanks a lot
hi! it is FAR far better. i personally installed fedora 40 (gnome) on my surface go 2 a few days ago and with a few enhancements here and there, it works like an actual tablet now. the touch input feels wonderful, its already somewhat fast in power save mode, and ofc even faster when its not. with windows i always felt like it took ages to boot, it heated up super fast, and none of the inputs felt like they were particularly designed for a tablet, everything just felt stiff and wonky, as if it is designed for a desktop/laptop experience (i know, shocker). alas, fedora is fairly easy to install and to get into and gnome is the perfect desktop environment for a more minimal tablet-like PC experience. coding works really well on it, and its portability is great. you might have to tweak around with its battery though, for some reason the battery goes down fast whenever its on standby mode. havent figured out a fix for that yet. if you havent bought one yet, i'd recommend a surface go 2 with 8gb of ram.
This video not only covered almost everything about the upgrade process, but also covered some things to think about before proceeding (feasibility, how about an m.2 drive instead, etc.). Things a lot of content creators miss. Also, KABABAYANNNN. Nakakaproud maging Pinoy dahil sayo bro.
So sad that Linux can't work for you. I just install Fedora 40 on my aspire switch 12, it was the best experience than original windows. I got the ram usage around 1.8gb after installed all the applications. All the drivers and touch screen works.. Just a small nick picker but manageable.. I never going back to windows for this old touch laptop.
Yo tenía problemas con genome,todos los días se me bloqueaba.Busque información y instale KDE plasma y desde entonces no e vuelto a tener problemas.Kde + Fedora son increíbles en mi surface Go
I have the same surface go 4gb/64gb. I recently installed debian with Gnome and it runs extremely well. with Windows performances are very slow, with debian it seems another PC completely, i can even run a qemu-kvm Virtual Machine with windows 8.1 embedded just for running office (ms excel) and still have good performance in the debian browser, wirhout even stopping the vm.
Kubuntu works very well on the Surface Go. Both in tablet mode (with maliit keyboard and firefox) and as a laptop with the keyboard. KDE Plasma seems much better than gnome for tablets / convertibles.
does your surface go have only an enabled and disabled option for secure boot, all the tutorials have a "microsoft and 3rd party ca" option but mine doesn't. did you manage to enable secure boot
All the distros you tried use the GNOME desktop environment on their main edition, which is to blame for the lack of a graphical setting for the touchpad scrolling speed. You should try a KDE spin of a distro, KDE has that setting and many other settings that you'd want that gnome doesn't include for some reason. But it wouldn't make for an entartaining video segment. It also has some goodies specifically for tablets with "tablet mode" that makes the ui bigger when only the touchscreen is available, customisable gestures from screen edges , and a better on-screen keyboard AFAIK, though I'm not sure about how it does overall beacuse I don't have a tablet. Also there's no reason you couldn't install parsec on fedora if it's available on flathub, probably missed something in the Flatpak setup. But alas distros tend to not have a good out-of-the-box UX nowadays mostly due to a focus and conflicts on how things work under the hood. Great that you have done a great effort to make it work for you when a lot of people don't bother. Nice video editing too
