I haven’t had a great time with Linux on a tablet without a keyboard and mouse but PostmarketOS is 100% usable IMO. Even the on screen keyboard on the login screen works.
The app launcher UI is hilarious, the name is too long so it adds 3 more periods to it and cuts off even more of the name.
I’ve recently installed ZorinOS on my Surface Go 2 as part of my migration away from US software. Had a great experience too so far, way faster than Windows 11 like 2-3x faster which is crucial as my base model only has 4GB RAM.
Only issue is my camera isn’t working, but I rarely used it (unfortunately still have a work laptop for teams calls). Now just need to migrate rest of services away from Microsoft account and close it.
So, h264 video playback at 1080px works flawlessly, and flac audio. What about
- other codecs
- hardware accel, e.g. for h265?
How’s the battery life compared to Windows?
x86, ARM, are intended to be multipurpose, right? So why tf does the OS running on it need multiple layers of abstraction and have the right drivers to support common features? Wouldn’t it be possible to standardize the interfaces for audio, hw video acceleration, etc. so that you just need one audio driver for all x86 CPUs, another for ARM and be done?
Did you use the linux-surface kernel? It has additional community maintained patches for surface devices and detailed installation instructions for the best linux experience. From their feature matrix they seem to have full support for sgo2.
Not sure if its available on pmOS though.
No, if I figure out pmbootstrap and make a custom image I will try to get the custom kernel in. So far everything but the cameras seem to work.
Very cool, thanks. How did you pair the pen?
I don’t think they need pairing. It just worked for me. It’s a generic one off amazon. The Microsoft one I got with the tablet broke after a month and the replacement one also broke after a month. I’m still kind of mad about it like 4 year later.
So…you just took it out of the box and it paired automatically? What’s to stop it from pairing to the wrong device?
I think the tablet was just using it as a normal touchscreen. Therefore nothing to pair.
