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installing linux on my surface pro 8 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone! I know im not good with technology. I brought a surface pro 8, 3 years ago. I obviously understand that was a mistake and i should have listened to programmer cousin. Its gonna be slighty difficult to install linux on it.

I've researched several youtube videos, but i was wondering if anyone had any tips?Obviously the attachable keyboard has to work and i want the touch screen to work. The surface appealed to me when i brought for those features.

With all the privacy concerns of windows, i want to commit to switching my operating system! Thank you everyone for their help with all my privacy questions. Ive been getting into foss and learning kotlin.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

to add to what others already said, the work from linux-surface is being adopted in the mainline, so it is possible that your hardware is already supported in a modern distro, like Fedora. boot it off a live USB image and poke around, you'll get a better feel for it.

pro tip, at the GRUB menu press 'e' to edit the first item and then add rd.live.ram and that should load the image to RAM. you can then remove the USB and it'll be way faster to navigate and it won't touch your existing SSD install.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dude. I've been using Linux since 1995, and I never knew about rd.live.ram.

I don't use grub much anymore with UEFI around, but for those bootable USBs that's gold.

MVP

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

that's for Fedora, for Ubuntu it's toram I think? or was that for older versions... Esc during boot to verify, if it goes "loading to RAM" then you know it's working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's not a grub function? Bummer. My rescue images are either Arch or Alpine.