Installing Linux on a Surface RT

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Not too long ago, I acquired an original Surface RT from a yard sale for $10. And with Windows 8.1 being utterly useless on this thing, I figured I'd try to put Linux on it!
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00:00 - Intro
01:28 - Pre-Install Prep
04:04 - Setting up Linux
07:02 - First Boot (from USB)
08:24 - Writing to the internal drive
10:20 - First Boot ( from HDD)
12:28 - Modules
13:28 - Browsing the Web
16:24 - Some post install stuff
20:02 - Installing apps
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@grumpywolfgaming 4 месяца назад

You literally can't make that thing any worse. I was a surface support agent for a few years. EVERYONE hated getting calls about the RT, you couldn't remote in to help the customer because there was no software to do it.

@aprofondir 4 месяца назад

It's on Microsoft for releasing an ARM version of windows without a translation layer.

@TheRailroad99 4 месяца назад

@@aprofondirthat was not really the issue. The issue was that it was locked to the windows store. You couldn't just install random binaries from the internet. That's why there is, to this day, no third party browser for WinRT. It would only run Windows 8 Apps (Metro Apps), not classic Win32 Apps. If they allowed Win32 Apps (which would have been possible, the Surface does offer the Win32 API - just not for Third party apps) it wouldnt have been the Desaster it was. They learned as with Windows10S you could upgrade for free to enable non-Windows Store Apps (and AFAIK the Win10 App store does allow classic Win32 Apps)

@miregoji2959 4 месяца назад

@@TheRailroad99 Actually it's because you can't run exe files on arm

@mari2. 4 месяца назад

@@miregoji2959 you can run exes compiled for ARM, but not exes compiled for x86 or amd64

@corq365 4 месяца назад

I totally agree with you! The fact it can't get worse is almost inspiring me to dig mine because I won't care if it is ruined from it...

@ProjectCypher132 4 месяца назад

mjd never fails to mess up anything he touches then somehow fix it again

@gergothegemer_8 4 месяца назад

@IBims1Mark 4 месяца назад

FURRY UwU Protogen~ RAAAAAAAAM

@burnedmozzarella 4 месяца назад

that's just the learning curve he has (me too i guess)

@theducksarecoming 4 месяца назад

@@IBims1Markwhat

@Dellguy29 4 месяца назад

yes he never fails

@erinw6120 4 месяца назад

Love how you grumbled about the troubles with it being a 10 year old device, whilst I'm watching this on a 12 year old Dell laptop running Linux.

@luisgpr1 4 месяца назад

I installed W10 on an old AMD E1 laptop yesterday (not for me, for another person), oh boy was it a mistake.

@Espadasilenciosa 4 месяца назад

@@luisgpr1 Tell us more.

@luisgpr1 4 месяца назад

@@Espadasilenciosa It was just unbearably slow and unresponsive. Even with an SSD drive. Couldn't play youtube videos either, as even with the drivers from AMD it appears it was not being accelerated.

@TheCommunistRabbit 4 месяца назад

@@luisgpr1what de were u using?

@Sumire973 4 месяца назад

It's worth mentioning that the Surface RT is a 32-bit ARM device, ARM in general is an architecture that has not had much success on the desktop before Apple switched from Intel to their Apple Silicon, so modern Firefox in particular may have very little testing on this architecture, and/or the codecs may not be properly supported. If the Surface RT's RAM could be expanded, Android might have been an option at some point. Edit: I have seen that the Surface RT uses an NVIDIA GPU and specifically an NVIDIA Tegra, I'm not surprised that it has issues, NVIDIA has always been terrible on GNU/Linux.

@cubeheadexists 4 месяца назад

Babe wake up, MJD posted

@png_salt 4 месяца назад

Minors Spelling Mistake

@TinyTechBoi 4 месяца назад

@@png_saltwhooooaaahhhhhhh buddy

@camd1552 4 месяца назад

brooooo i actually thought this

@TechnoWindows1 4 месяца назад

@@png_salthmmm....

@noobbrainsredyoshi 4 месяца назад

I woke up

@spazzypengin 4 месяца назад

I had a Surface 2 RT like 10 years ago and honestly, didn't hate it. The whole "Edge" mode and "Desktop" mode thing was annoying af, but if you went in knowing that you weren't going to get "full Windows," then it was more than usable.

@Villager_U 4 месяца назад

Edge mode🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

@spazzypengin 4 месяца назад

@@Villager_U Yeah it came with some Kevlar gloves for when you used it because it was SHARP! Not really, that part was pretty damn awful if you ask me.

@JohnLasseter-ct5in 4 месяца назад

you did not get da joke.. @@spazzypengin

@bryans8656 4 месяца назад

I had one too, bought it right after it was released, and I really liked it. From there I moved up to a Surface Tablet.

@luisgpr1 4 месяца назад

@bryans8656 If it simply had a modern browser it would be actually useful with office 2013 installed

@richt2076 4 месяца назад

For those who might think this is pointless, I actually have a great use for something like this. I have a very old windows tablet that I installed the raspiOS on. I plug it into my 3D printer running Klipper firmware. I'm able to run kiauh to install fludd on the tablet and with the tablet, I have a great touch screen interface for my 3D printer.

@xanderplayz3446 Месяц назад

Surface Pad

@pablolambert7095 4 месяца назад

The timing for tis video is scarily on point. I got stuck installing raspberry pi on a surface rt and gave up 5 days ago, and let it sit until now. I google a minute and here you are helping me do the final steps! Thanks a bunch!!

@DariuszMacholl 4 месяца назад

Maybe postmarketOS would be a good fit for this device? It has ARMv7 builds, some easy to install touch friendly DEs, and with that keyboard cover you could just use sxmo or even pure sway with some custom config. Also in my experience qutebrowser gives much better performance on these old ARM chuggers

@tracylf5409 3 месяца назад

Just to save me searching online for hours and seeing nothing but junk posts/vids, do you have a link to a walkthrough that actually works as of March 2024, to install postmarketOS?

@abcdef-vk7si 3 месяца назад

@@tracylf5409 install gentoo on it please. there are lots of dirt cheap surface rts in my town and I'm thinking about buying one

@vainqwisher 26 дней назад

Also interested in a walkthrough! Been looking for a way to use postmarketOS

@logyadog69 4 месяца назад

I like the part in the video where Micheal said, "Are you jailbreaking because you're wanting Linux? Or does wanting Linux cause you to jailbreak?"

@meco 4 месяца назад

I literally just looked this up this week and now I get this video recommended. Nice

@Ajunne 4 месяца назад

I've literally spent a few days over Christmas doing the same thing, however with PostmarketOS instead of RaspberryPi OS. Still usable, unless you open a modern website. I think the Surface is going to end up in the trash if even Linux with XFCE won't even perform... Edit: Doing all those hacks to get the wifi and battery meter working is not needed with PostmarketOS, it all just works out of the box.

@CapTVchilenaShootingStarMax Месяц назад

I found an old Atom Netbook, kinda similar in specs to this thing. It would end up in the trash, but I decided to make it a retro Windows XP machine for older software and edutainment titles.

@midnite59 4 месяца назад

The tegra jailbreak reminds me of the tegra x1 jailbreak on the nvidia shield and Nintendo switch.

@ENIGMAXG2 9 дней назад

Yea, it runs on the same principles...

@victorm.06 4 месяца назад

I actually did this some time ago after your first video on the surface RT! I got one for 15€ and installed Raspbian to use it as a small media player and for some simples NES emulation. It works really well!

@ATAKER66 4 месяца назад

What emulator did you use? I tried retropi and it didn’t work very well. I installed it via terminal.

@AlexTheNerd 4 месяца назад

@@ATAKER66try just using raw retroarch

@SchlongIslandIcedTea 4 месяца назад

Can you upload anything related to this? I'd love to see videos of this running. I'm about to dig into installing raspbian once the darned recovery image downloads. 'tis a big boi.

@bhasitl 4 месяца назад

You should verify the hardware acceleration settings on Firefox and VLC and disable them in case the applications are attempting to use it which causes the crash.

@MichaelMJD 4 месяца назад

I did that, it didn’t make a difference

@bhasitl 4 месяца назад

@@MichaelMJD Ohh. Okk. Unfortunately

@CrackTheSurface 4 месяца назад

hardware on mainline kernel isn't possible because nvidia

@itsme_indira 4 месяца назад

@@CrackTheSurfaceLinus Torvalds was right, "Nvidia, fuck you."

@bland9876 4 месяца назад

I don't know what Nvidia has to do with anything but I also have no idea what hard work acceleration is I've just heard that term a lot. @@CrackTheSurface

@TheRailroad99 4 месяца назад

That's absolutely fantastic. Having a modern browser as well as a modern Unix subsystem (including GCC ) on this device makes it MUCH more useful. I was always thinking of making mine some type of Kiosk mode display / smart panel. The IE11 was too old for that. A modern FF / chrome should be easily enough for any simple dashboard website. Also, there are a lot of tools for the Raspberry Pi as its very popular, I would HIGHLY suggest anyone usijng the Surface to give this a try!

@povilasstaniulis9484 4 месяца назад

Brings back memories... I did use desktop Linux natively on Tegra 3 powered device back in the day (Asus TF300T). It was my first ever experience with desktop Linux on ARM. Tegras were pretty much the only ARM chips which had proper vendor-supplied Xorg graphics drivers with 3D accelleration support. Though not fast by any means, TF300T ran Ubuntu quite well. I even managed to get some 3D games working at playable framerates (though it took some doing due to lack of desktop OpenGL). And even... some Windows RT programs via Wine. Still have a full backup of my last installation somewhere (IIRC, it was Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 with Xorg libs pinned to older version to play well with Nvidia drivers). Sadly, it seems modern versions of Linux run poorly on the old Tegra 3. Your experience in this video is much, much worse than mine was back in the day. Your major issue is lack of working Xorg drivers, which, unfortunately, only exist for really old Linux versions and are likely darn near impossible to get working on anything modern.

@AngelaTheSephira 3 месяца назад

EeePad TF101 user here, it was also my first mobile desktop Linux experience... in 2021. Hey, it had no audio, but Discord in Chromium (Firefox segfaulted) ran... okay... ish.

@TechnoWindows1 4 месяца назад

Oh yeah! A new MJD video

@minty.dxrk_bx 4 месяца назад

Been a while since I watched MJD, and I'm so glad I found him again.

@Wii505 4 месяца назад

You know you can subscribe to him to see his video when they come out

@minty.dxrk_bx 4 месяца назад

@@Wii505 I know, I just forgot to subscribe since I was busy

@hayder0687 4 месяца назад

mjd never fails to post a lot of "but everything goes wrong" videos

@philtkaswahl2124 4 месяца назад

Oh, yes, I've been waiting for this one. I was not disappointed.

@ollieduracell 4 месяца назад

Always my go-to for geeking needs. Cheers Michael!

@aether64bit 4 месяца назад

glad to see linux once again give some life to otherwise very much obsolete hardware

@denniswoycheshen 4 месяца назад

It's like living with a bad heart and broken leg but I get it.

@dziugas1959 4 месяца назад

Without hardware accelerations and sluggish performance, it did not give any „life“ to it, „Windows RT“ is still more usable ironically.

@sihamhamda47 4 месяца назад

@@dziugas1959 No one has made a graphics driver for that ARM SoC since it's very old. Even if the community actually made one it's less than worth it since the 32-bit architecture itself is already too old and obsolete. Not mentioning that every 32-bit system will eventually bricked itself in 2038 because of integer limit

@ConfuSomu 4 месяца назад

@@sihamhamda47Not necessarily, you can represent 64-bit numbers on 32-bit platforms. It's just a little slower as you have to fetch more data. Thus, you can have a 64-bit time_t on a 32-bit platform (and even platforms which have a smaller data width).

@ophtalmology 4 месяца назад

Dude, raspberrypieOS on surface is way worse than even windows 8 rt in terms of usability😅 Linux didn’t give it some life at all.

@NoroTechnologies 4 месяца назад

Despite UNIX being a Pre-Linux, I always see these OpenSource UI unique

@endroidui 4 месяца назад

Archlinux and postmarket os has hardware acceleration for the surface rt

@dogecode386 4 месяца назад

3:03 A lot of Linux distros support this out of the box now.

@jdavis. 4 месяца назад

Have you tried installing Linux on an old iPad? Project Sandcastle seems to list it as an option, but I'd love to see if it's actually possible to get a modern distro running

@taffeylewis 4 месяца назад

Great video. Can't wait to try thin the RT that's been sitting in my cupboard for years. Now, where did I put that charger?

@damagethis 4 месяца назад

Hi, great video and in easy to follow guide. I am stuck at the boot from HDD section as you skipped the video. to the screen. did you d anything else in that time as mine wont boot from HDD.

@simonupton-millard 4 месяца назад

At least been Linux bet somewhere there is graphics drivers that will enable hardware acceleration if not with pi os another distro after all an RTs job is to watch RU-vid on the sofa, thanks for showing this thing still has some life left in it

@RazzerPaper 4 месяца назад

A video for installation of PostmarketOs would be great

@KingNikolai 4 месяца назад

let's go new mjd post I know alot more abt surfaces now that I work in IT we stock those old crappy things for staff and students and I have to prepare them for checkout

@dragosbogdan3450 4 месяца назад

Cool! Do you can install hand gesture and optimize this tablet? You can change the GUI with openbox and add polybar.

@wctcasc 4 месяца назад

The long awaited video.

@thedavyjones 4 месяца назад

“Permission Denied, Okay”. Idk why that made me crack up. 😂

@inferi312 4 месяца назад

I love your weird OS shenanigans. I'm watching it on my Windows Vista Extended Kernel Laptop.

@gamethecupdog 4 месяца назад

13:47 in my experience, I think by default raspi os uses Firefox ESR, which is extended support. It's usually an older version that's built more around stability.

@gamethecupdog 4 месяца назад

I did do some research and it looks like version 120 is newer than current ESR. Maybe raspi os maintainers changed this?

@kami-kun_va 2 месяца назад

I thought RPiOs came with Chromium

@gamethecupdog 2 месяца назад

@@kami-kun_va It came with FF ESR for me, maybe they changed the default?

@WebOSDevelops 4 месяца назад

These Linux folks sure are skilled

@bland9876 4 месяца назад

I'm very confused because one RU-vid put the red underline meaning I've already seen this on this video that ive definitely not seen two it said this video was uploaded 12 hours ago and three when I clicked on it it now says uploaded 8 hours ago.

@anon_y_mousse 4 месяца назад

I've been thinking about getting one of these to use as a proper Linux tablet, so this is just in time. As for the boot image, I find it's better to symlink to the correct one with a simplified name so you retain the information at a glance for what version and build number it comes from, as well as enabling you to have multiple versions at the same time that you can select between.

@resneptacle 4 месяца назад

Symlinks don't work on FAT32 afaik

@anon_y_mousse 4 месяца назад

@@resneptacle Why would you use FAT32 anyway, just format it as ext4.

@bigredlizerd 4 месяца назад

@@anon_y_mousse The /boot partition, on both ARM and desktop, is usually always vfat (FAT32) due to the bootloader. You can probably use other file systems for it, but have fun with the issues. Besides, your choice to symlink your boot image makes no sense when you can just rename it?

@anon_y_mousse 4 месяца назад

@@bigredlizerd The EFI partition has to be VFAT, but not your /boot partition. Mine is ext4 and boots perfectly fine and fully supports symlinks. Renaming means you have to retain the information somewhere other than the file itself. Maybe you don't care and would just wipe it and install whatever, even if you run into problems and it would be a good idea to diagnose them which is easier with the information at hand, but you can very easily use a symlink to retain the information and allow for easier swapping between different kernel versions.

@ayaand988 4 месяца назад

get a nexus 7 or 9/10 trust me you dont want a rt

@HowieStephens 4 месяца назад

I still use my surface rt pretty regularly but basically ONLY via Remote Desktop to my actual PC. As long as i have a good connection, it's almost like I'm carrying around my big computer in a tiny little frame.

@user-ed3jt4kt5o 4 месяца назад

This is super cool as a fun project, but the lack of hardware acceleration is a complete deal breaker for actual use. Is there any Linux distro that supports it?

@Wolferia 4 месяца назад

I LOVE ALL YOUR VIDEOS

@davidoli 4 месяца назад

This is awesome, I think this would be a prime candidate for GNOME but since there's no 3d acceleration I don't know how well it would run.

@werox709 3 месяца назад

you can overlock cpu on preferences and improve experience, it ended up been a nice looking home assistant wallpanel

@dansmoothback9644 4 месяца назад

I worked at Best Buy when the Surface RT came out and I thought it was a pretty pointless device back then. Too bad hw accel doesn't work in raspios, that would probably make it actually usable.

@btarg1 4 месяца назад

Super cool! Shame about the lack of hardware acceleration.

@dorianplayerone 4 месяца назад

another great video

@Vlado_PerdomoH 3 месяца назад

How did you solve the issue of copying modules and firmware to the lib folder? I am unable to do that and put the wifi running ( mainly because of lack of knowledge), can yooou/anyone help me?

@tracylf5409 25 дней назад

I was hoping to get my RT running to the point that I could Google & also watch my cooking videos from RU-vid, but I guess not. I'm wondering if you could use yt-dlp to get the video (store on the added mSD card) & then playback with VLC?

@pedrovaz6464 2 месяца назад

I'm having the same error at 13:17 and i don't know what I can do about it, you just simply said "one root access later" ... what is that? what can I do?

@8randomprettysecret8 4 месяца назад

Made obsolete Microsoft hardware more usable, cool! Thanks for sharing the process

@Krahemeister 4 месяца назад

Good call with RaspberryPi OS!

@andresbravo2003 4 месяца назад

That’s my Request! I did really like to run Linux on many Systems, Even on Low-End to High-End as a Daily Driver.

@old_liquid 4 месяца назад

Pls recommend a distro with seamless gpu switching for optimus notebook

@gamethecupdog 4 месяца назад

Oh man, using Linux on laptops and tuning performance to be perfect was my bread and butter for a while. Kinda sucks that I can't get proper clock speed control on either of my Zen 2 systems...

@thet4306 4 месяца назад

Waking up on a weekend for a entering video

@EirikrTinkerTries 16 дней назад

Wait does this thing have full Mesa 3D acceleration for the Tegra? Installing Phosh would be kinda nice on this as the UI NGL. Or KDE Mobile. Bonus points for doing those along with it being a BSD. Final question - if the device is updated beyond October 2016, any chance of being able to downgrade it to stock firmware? (I feel like there has to be but idk)

@CuriouserArchive 3 месяца назад

Can't help but wonder if there's a distro with hardware acceleration for this thing. I mean, this is still an improvement over the mess that was Windows RT, but running with no acceleration is really less than ideal.

@JonaDes 4 месяца назад

I've also got one and installed Raspberry Pi OS on it: it's unusable due to the lack of hardware acceleration. Can't even browse the web without the thing crashing. A bit sad.

@coolis2332 4 месяца назад

next video: going to the moon but everything goes wrong

@TheGamesZilla492 Месяц назад

Nah ,knowing this guy,nothng go wrong and he land on the moon,taking selfies with the flag and Apollo landing sites

@glenmunro5483 3 месяца назад

Mine doesn't boot into RPiOS. It asks me to push ESC within 5 seconds to skip startup.nsh file. Any help is appreciated.

@cnr_0778 4 месяца назад

Is there any reason that the nVidia tegra drivers for Linux don't work on this system?

@HeadsetHistorian 4 месяца назад

If this is a tegra device would it be possible to install the nvidia shield os?

@Derpingtonshere 4 месяца назад

can you switch to mobile version of youtube in firefox and maybe have a easier time with that?

@microwaved_breadIX 4 месяца назад

yo MJD, does this work on anything other than raspberry pi os? im trying to install a distro called zorin os. (on the rog ally)

@ekkr4 2 месяца назад

Hi, great video! I followed your tutorial to successfully install a version of Win 10. I wonder if you had a solution to transform the RT surface into a second screen, I couldn't do it with Win 10, maybe Linux has any ideas?

@bennimarru 3 месяца назад

13:22 how do you get root access? I can't copy the files, it keeps saying permission denied.

@bennimarru 22 дня назад

Thanks for not helping. I'll just not have any wifi, I guess.

@davidb636 4 месяца назад

Hmm, even browsing the web seems to be a pain using this device. Maybe it could be used, for example, as the frontend for some home automation? So installing Linux, installing some home automation tools and use this as graphical frontend, physically connected using USB hub or something like that if it's cheap enough... smart enough to power a whole Linux system and having a working touch screen so you won't necessarily need a keyboard for it to work.

@jt5678 Месяц назад

Mine doesn't work. When I try to boot from USB, it gets to the "welcome to raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" screen, but then I just get a loop of apparent read errors: EXT4-fs error (device sda2): __ext4_find_entry:1612: inode #[21 comm systemd-udevd]: reading directory lblock 0 The location in brackets changes, but it's just an endless bootloop of this same error.

@AndreiNeacsu 4 месяца назад

Is that tablet the Gill Bates 4000 model, or is it the 6000? Oh, that thing is ancient! You need the Gill Bates 10000 which is over 9000.

@learncodehere 27 дней назад

i got issue while restoring windows 8.1 on surface rt which is secure boot isn't configured correctly, how can I do this?

@jimmyscott5144 4 месяца назад

I have one of those. I wonder what would be better that bootleg is for windows 10 with no support and no software, or raspberry pi os?

@JOELwindows7 4 месяца назад

Ayy yoo, MJD, awake! Watch! Yess

@username_20101 4 месяца назад

so cool i would recommend

@jandjrandr 4 месяца назад

Installing RPi Linux is pretty awesome, but maybe not optimal for that device. Android OS (which is still Linux) would be a better fit and offers more apps that it can actually handle running well because they are all mobile apps.

@Daktyl198 4 месяца назад

The Surface RT was originally intended as a mobile workspace, though. While severely limited in what apps you could use, it did still run a desktop OS, so this is closer to the OG usecase. On top of that, Android has far more modern and high performance requirements than you think it does lol. He’d have to install a very old version of android.

@user-zt2jf2wz1d 4 месяца назад

we're currently on android 7.1.2 for the surface rt 1@@Daktyl198

@bland9876 4 месяца назад

@@Daktyl198I thought the reason we were all running Android on our phones was because they were too weak to run windows or on iPhone Mac OS.

@BrightSpark 4 месяца назад

@@bland9876 Maybe initially that was the case, but nowadays, unless you are comparing a gaming PC to a smartphone, I think the power gap has significantly closed. Desktops and laptops are still more powerful since they don't usually have to fit in your pocket, but not by THAT much more. The main reason, however, is the UI - a window-based UI like Windows or macOS is just far from optimal for a device with a screen that is at most the size of your hand.

@bland9876 4 месяца назад

@@BrightSpark Well sadly Microsoft killed off Windows phone before that could happen because Windows won't look like it was going to be really cool.

@aeches 4 месяца назад

i bought a dell venue 7130 MS. it has an SD card reader, sim reader + card, upgradable wifi and m.2, and some models may have upgradable ram(?) it came out around the time of this, and some models were the same price for stronger hardware. Nowadays you can get the top of the line ones for $60 when they costed $1k at the highest. It even has a keyboard with a second battery to boost the batterylife. it runs nicely on ubuntu, but i'm, an arch guy baha.

@lordkaczuha4598 4 месяца назад

why didn't you use postmarketOS? it also supports the surface rt

@mentalplayground 4 месяца назад

Superb !

@kingshuriken99 2 месяца назад

wow it was so easy thank you

@nikola.acimovic 4 месяца назад

Hi MJD! I only want to run youtube, e-mail and SOMEKIND of word/excel on this thing 😩😫 PLEASE tell me, is there anything I can do to accomplish that task??? Thanks in advance!

@random_filter5_and_stuff 3 месяца назад

Well watching this I was doing a side project and I have a raspberry pi running the imager right now

@yannik_dumon 4 месяца назад

You could've tried to to run Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition on it… (apparently it isn't included by default in Raspberry Pi OS anymore but the download is still available on the Minecraft website)

@princeoffriendship6595 4 месяца назад

@MichaelMJD i jsut today installed this and im wondering how you did the root access because wifi is also my issue

@michaelmacnamara1100 Месяц назад

Got EXACTLY the same issue here - the root access bit 'flashed past' too quickly and I'm sure I missed something important (that may have been assumed knowledge) - Every other aspect of the install on my old Surface RT has been excellent so far - Michael's guide is brilliant - just needed more explicit instruction at the wi fi glitch and how solved it.

@ATAKER66 4 месяца назад

Tried to install retropi on top of raspberry pi os on the original surface rt a couple months ago. Took overnight to install via terminal just to not work and would just crash when launching a game. It’s best to use it as a fancy picture frame because of how slow it is.

@wollypolly 27 дней назад

dam

@CallumHurley 7 дней назад

Would this be bookable from Micro SD? So then booting into RT or Linux is just a matter of inserting/removing the SD card?

@AnesuC 4 месяца назад

Usually 2 finger tap right clocks, so might have been the same here. This was before the hold to right click was a "standard" I think

@eDoc2020 4 месяца назад

Hold to right click has been standard on Wacom-based tablet PCs since before multi-touch devices were around.

@jieliu3283 4 месяца назад

Your alive🎉

@m1n1siow 2 месяца назад

golden keys not working on bios v3.30.500 16/08/2013 :( any way to update the bios to v3.31.500 like yours? Tried both rt builds 9200 and 9600 from clean emmc.