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Guys, I'll switch in a heartbeat to a Linux OS if any one you can recommend a stable OS that works on a Surface Go 2. It should support its touchscreen, of course, and a Surface Pen. Plus, a FOSS alternative to Journal would be stellar
I've been running Bazzite on an old 1st gen Surface Book Pro that I had laying around. Touch screen and all the fancy keyboard stuff works great.
I'm running Ubuntu on a Surface Laptop Studio. I really like it, though I have not yet gotten the touchscreen and pen working.
If I figure it out (and I remember) I'll let you know.
Have you looked into Mint?
The linux mint forums make it seem like it works out of the box. I know that it worked out of the box for my Thinkpad x380, even the touchscreen, pen, and screen rotation.
Same on my thinkpad y370
Same on my e6520 latitude
A quick Google reveals https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Supported-Devices-and-Features#feature-matrix
Do you really need a custom kernel for the surface devices?
I don't. But the person I replied to said they were having trouble with Linux on a surface.
So, that's a project dedicated to Linux on surfaces. I would presume they had tried the usual distros and found them lacking
Idk Journal but you can give Xournal a try, it works pretty well and you can arrange all the buttons to your liking
https://xournalpp.github.io/
Idk man but try OpenSuse, It's pretty cool. Here is the review that make me install it
Mint is the only version you have a chance of liking if you are coming from windows. I know windows sucks and people low to pump Linux but most distros simply aren't user friendly.
Thanks for the insight. I tried my hands at Kubuntu on an old laptop of mine and didn't mind the few differences too much. From what I've heard on Lemmy, Mint seems to be a good all-around suggestion for new Linux users, though
Your hardware has to have support for Linux, not the other way around.