Been wanting to put Linux on my Surface Pro 7, but when i tried it with Ubuntu, it didn’t work as well as I’d like. I used the Surface driver kernel, but Ubuntu wasn’t really good with touch. It couldn’t give a pop up keyboard (only showed up when logging into my account, but never beyond that). Sometimes it wouldn’t register touch at all. That and other little things that made it not ideal for touch screens. So i was wondering, are there any good distros that would work well in tablet only mode on my Surface Pro?

  • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Fedora. It is the flagship distro for Gnome, and Gnome is the best desktop for tablets and convertibles.

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      9 months ago

      I had Fedora with the surface-linux kernel running for a while and at some point an update broke everything, including the touch pad.

      The Surface isn’t a great Linux device, unfortunately.