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.
Great job! I’ve always avoided Surfaces because the guides to running Linux on them are always like 30 pages long.
I just did the same with mine! I’m loving it so far and previously on windows I had to disable 3D to use Godot but on mint 3D is kinda usable. It at least doesn’t crash lol
… 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 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.
Wait wifi doesn’t work with the Surface Kernel?
Sounds like it was an issue with their specific device. Never had a WiFi issue running Mint on my Surface for years.
Yes, was a hardware issue on my laptop. Works for other’s indeed
It didn’t work for me on my Surface Pro 7 with LMDE but i had an Ethernet adaptor and when i did an update it all worked.
To expand a little it worked on the initial LMDE install but I did the Surface Pro update from git hub
https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface
and it borked the wifi driver but it did give me touch support, better BT etc and an udate via the Ethernet adaptor then fixed the WiFi issue
if I’m understanding right it had stopped working for them on Windows too…
Correct
How does the touch screen work with linux mint? Does it?
Works fine with this kernel installed
https://https//github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Installation-and-Setup#Debian--Ubuntu
