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Microsoft Surface Pro 5 w/dock - Intel i7 16GB 512GB
i would look to buy one of these.
does anyone have any advice for putting on Linux ?
witch os works with the touch screen ?
any help, advice or direction would be appreciated.
Microsoft Surface Pro 5 w/dock - Intel i7 16GB 512GB i would look to buy one of these. does anyone have any advice for putting on Linux ? witch os works with the touch screen ? any help, advice or direction would be appreciated.
Pretty much any distro will work fine. openSUSE Tumbleweed works perfectly on the one I have, and others have reported Mint and Ubuntu also work. And you can also run a live distro from USB, to see if everything works.
thank you TB0ne
i tried googling it and never could find a clear answer. i was concerned if touch screen worked well .
I can only tell you that openSUSE Tumbleweed worked great for me. However, I do think it's important to note that the touch part worked fine...as in, tap to select/drag/open, but I did NOT test the stylus pressure gradient part. From what I understand, the Surface stylus has pressure gradients, so when you're doing digital art, you can 'push harder', to simulate more pressure on a brush/pen.
i installed openSUSE Tumbleweed latest, it was a little difficult with efi but i got it installed with help.
i have had no luck with the touch screen working, i know you can compile a kernel, and install repos.
i would like to get it working, but i afraid of messing the install up.
what did you do to get your surface working?
in crunchbangplusspluss11 all works fine.
the print is very small, and if you change the screen resolution with randr it throes the touch pin off.
i haven't found a way to calibrate the pin.
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