I'm on dualboot with fedora and a completly stripped down Version of Windows 11. I never tried mint on my surface go 3, but Fedora worked best for me.
@SenatorMailman20 күн бұрын
Yeah, I get so burned by how dismissive the Linux community is about things in general. For what it's worth, I have the Surface Go 2 running Debian. However, I did the more unhinged approach of "I dont want any dang desktop environments, this should be like a tablet with its restrictions removed". It works, but it wasn't without pain.
@martykong359220 күн бұрын
: ) THANKS MUCH for sharing! I was looking to do same with daughters old surface to get a Linux 2 in 1 : ) ALL the BEST and Cheers ! : )
@cadywelp23521 күн бұрын
Ive been using Arch Linux on my surface pro 6 for like 8 months, its a decent experience
@peyau204124 күн бұрын
Linux sucks
@cadmium.837625 күн бұрын
ran into similar issues with the touchpad scrolling in GNOME and also went through that whole process to change it absolutely ridiculous... they really have to add something in the settings bc it makes it almost unusable for me thankfully KDE plasma has an actual UI for changing this easily & you can also adjust the touchpad scroll speed in firefox in about:config, mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_x/y/z
@DungNguyen-gy4lt28 күн бұрын
Linux saves more battery than Windows on Surface devices?
@Duesi202413 күн бұрын
it's more or less on paar with windows, at least on surface products.
@_PymanderАй бұрын
🤙🏻 would Ubuntu touch work better?
@rudrapednekar1644Ай бұрын
Yupp i was screaming and i have indeed lost my voice... But thanks ima buy myself a nice surface go for my ipad replacement
@HadisabetghadamАй бұрын
maybe CPU Bad? Maybe GPU ? Ram? Or PSU?
@slayparaderАй бұрын
Hi. What is your 2024 suggestion of my caddy in Thinkpad T530? Should it be an SSD or HDD?
@kylenorris9585Ай бұрын
Ive bever had issues with Howdy on Ubuntu even with cheap chinese laptops.
@kylenorris9585Ай бұрын
Use Brave
@NilsonVerde-h7bАй бұрын
Try fydeos, maybe it's a better experience
@adeliteАй бұрын
bro if you are using flatpak anyways why switch to ubuntu???? like it comes preinstalled with fedora too 😭😭😭
@annonymousghostdetector8425Ай бұрын
low end android are much faster than older iphones running on newer ios
@torbloodaxeАй бұрын
Cry baby. But you can't expect anything else when a person is a Mac person.
@markluxton3402Ай бұрын
Did you try newer Mint- Cinnamon or LMDE or Mint Mate or Debian Mate or Gnome? I thought the touch worked on other devices with other DTE's?
@Tvirus12Ай бұрын
parsec IS available as a flatpak on flathub. maybe not when this video came out so maybe you should go back to fedora now as it worked the best for you. I dunno why you're complaining so much, this is a surface tablet. it's made by microsoft for microsoft. The fact that linux runs at all is a testament of the work done by volunteers. Volunteers that aren't spying on you every 3 minutes. You should mitigate your expectations. I have 4 surface pro latops that I put linux on, fedora, EndeavorOS , ubuntu and OpenSUSE tumbleweed on the GO. of the 4 EndeavorOS is my favorite of the 4 distros, but it's not perfect. nowhere near perfect. Opensuse had the best out of the box experience. Fedora is nice but IDK why, I just don't like it. Ubuntu is the toyota or honda of linux, nothing flashy, it will just work. To me, cameras are not a factor cameras worked on ubuntu, fedora. not on suse and on endeavor, I can get it to where it sees the cameras but doesn't connect to them.
@Tvirus12Ай бұрын
I had ubuntu on my surface pro go, and I recently changed it to suse tumbleweed w/ kde and it works better than ubuntu. but yours is the base model
@pauli311Ай бұрын
Very creative way to hold onto hdd cage
@MarkRkenohkiАй бұрын
whats up pinoy - glad you're liking linux on that surface go. cool video! I tried rpm based but just need more apps and more familiar with Debian. This guy found some methods to boot the surface 2 go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKqVhZyOmJpnabssi=TRqDEKO-hEM80VJj
@PenzАй бұрын
"Ooh, dankpods" LMAO
@0ni0ng0ld-g6i2 ай бұрын
Try with ChromeOS Flex, it's lightweight and touch friendly
@ViktorsTech2 ай бұрын
The first mistake was not using base debian instead of ubuntu
@bumbacteodor34532 ай бұрын
Trie ubuntu 24 04
@ENNEN4202 ай бұрын
Windows will bog down that tablet, but so would Ubuntu LMAO I hope your soul has had the spiritual healing required after attempting to break through Microsoft's special curated Fort Knox I think the Lenovo Yoga tablets MIGHT actually work a lot better than MS's locked down hellscape tablet.
@austinsawyer74992 ай бұрын
Stumbled across this video by accident. I stayed due to the fact that this video was done exceptionally well! I'm currently upgrading my laptop, but no CD drive on my laptop, so no reason to stay. Everything was well explained and brought down to speed for those that may have trouble understanding all of the tech abbreviations, or lingo. I've subscribed, and I hope you're still making videos like this.
@Braimpapifuego2 ай бұрын
I tried it with fedora plasma all i gotta say is that it runs like butter
@uccoffee2 ай бұрын
I put some android x86 on it before, and now just end up using the go with windows 11 for RDP another windows 11.... Somehow the window RDP is the best to remote another RDP computer....
@johnsonrichard61163 ай бұрын
I tried using Linux on my Go 3 6500Y 8GB model. The biggest problem is actually cooling and processor, especially when hooking onto a monitor. Current browsers and websites are just a bit too much for this processor inside of such a limited chassis. I encountered several blank screens due to overheating.
@Duesi202413 күн бұрын
try Thorium Browser. I generally use firefox, but i have also a Go3 6500y, with Thorium its cool and efficient ;)
@Snoweuph3 ай бұрын
couldnt you have used the Parsec Flatpak on Fedora as well? isnt flatpak distro unspecific?
@toxictrapper49553 ай бұрын
Hi there! I am currently looking to buy a surface go (1st gen or maybe 2nd gen, have not decided yet) to use for coding (I am starting to learn coding and looking for backend blockchain development) and need to use it when outside the home (i have a pretty decent pc at home) was wondering if using linux would be better for this purpose compared to windows and if so, which one should i install? Thanks a lot
@twiphe4375Ай бұрын
hi! it is FAR far better. i personally installed fedora 40 (gnome) on my surface go 2 a few days ago and with a few enhancements here and there, it works like an actual tablet now. the touch input feels wonderful, its already somewhat fast in power save mode, and ofc even faster when its not. with windows i always felt like it took ages to boot, it heated up super fast, and none of the inputs felt like they were particularly designed for a tablet, everything just felt stiff and wonky, as if it is designed for a desktop/laptop experience (i know, shocker). alas, fedora is fairly easy to install and to get into and gnome is the perfect desktop environment for a more minimal tablet-like PC experience. coding works really well on it, and its portability is great. you might have to tweak around with its battery though, for some reason the battery goes down fast whenever its on standby mode. havent figured out a fix for that yet. if you havent bought one yet, i'd recommend a surface go 2 with 8gb of ram.
@SinaTheGuy3 ай бұрын
it might be a bit late, but chrome os flex on these works very well (i installed it on my surface go 2)
@roccociccone5973 ай бұрын
Never buy a Surface device to run Linux on. NEVER
@SwiatLinuksa3 ай бұрын
9:53 Ubuntu is full SNAP'py, Fedora love flatpacks😂❤❤
@408locote3 ай бұрын
I was thinking of booking from sd card in the back
@mattclarenzmendoza71273 ай бұрын
This video not only covered almost everything about the upgrade process, but also covered some things to think about before proceeding (feasibility, how about an m.2 drive instead, etc.). Things a lot of content creators miss. Also, KABABAYANNNN. Nakakaproud maging Pinoy dahil sayo bro.
@espinita.3 ай бұрын
This video unironically gets me so excited
@espinita.3 ай бұрын
I'm doing this soon with the Surface Pro 7
@cirkulx3 ай бұрын
what exactly do you use it for, id switch to arch in my dreams on my surface pro 5 but i use after effects and animate too much
@kenrock23 ай бұрын
So sad that Linux can't work for you. I just install Fedora 40 on my aspire switch 12, it was the best experience than original windows. I got the ram usage around 1.8gb after installed all the applications. All the drivers and touch screen works.. Just a small nick picker but manageable.. I never going back to windows for this old touch laptop.
@hermitgreenn3 ай бұрын
Yeah that's the difference between a manufacturer using standard laptop components vs some weird proprietary configuration.
@everlastingos3 ай бұрын
Pretty funny video :) Great job!! Did do a video on the Linux tablet (x86), that could be a good surface replacment :)
@azzayedensanchezsosa55193 ай бұрын
Yo tenía problemas con genome,todos los días se me bloqueaba.Busque información y instale KDE plasma y desde entonces no e vuelto a tener problemas.Kde + Fedora son increíbles en mi surface Go
@antoninoisgro9123 ай бұрын
I have the same surface go 4gb/64gb. I recently installed debian with Gnome and it runs extremely well. with Windows performances are very slow, with debian it seems another PC completely, i can even run a qemu-kvm Virtual Machine with windows 8.1 embedded just for running office (ms excel) and still have good performance in the debian browser, wirhout even stopping the vm.
@QBJ3863 ай бұрын
The problem wasn't Linux, the problem was the Surface.
@MohammadSuhaimi4 ай бұрын
bro, your content style is nice.
@guyburdick93234 ай бұрын
Kubuntu works very well on the Surface Go. Both in tablet mode (with maliit keyboard and firefox) and as a laptop with the keyboard. KDE Plasma seems much better than gnome for tablets / convertibles.
@mintybudgie4 ай бұрын
does your surface go have only an enabled and disabled option for secure boot, all the tutorials have a "microsoft and 3rd party ca" option but mine doesn't. did you manage to enable secure boot
@guyburdick93234 ай бұрын
@@mintybudgie Hi, Yes, mine only has the option for Secure Boot either on or off. I leave it on (and TPM2).
@guyburdick93234 ай бұрын
Yes, I only have the option to turn off or on Secureboot. I leave it on. Thanks
@mintybudgie4 ай бұрын
@@guyburdick9323so if i install mx linux and the surface kernel, then can i just turn secure boot to enabled
@IlllIlllIlllIlll4 ай бұрын
I have a 8gb 128gb surface go 1824. Anyways you can test with custom roms?
@gbfgtki4 ай бұрын
All the distros you tried use the GNOME desktop environment on their main edition, which is to blame for the lack of a graphical setting for the touchpad scrolling speed. You should try a KDE spin of a distro, KDE has that setting and many other settings that you'd want that gnome doesn't include for some reason. But it wouldn't make for an entartaining video segment. It also has some goodies specifically for tablets with "tablet mode" that makes the ui bigger when only the touchscreen is available, customisable gestures from screen edges , and a better on-screen keyboard AFAIK, though I'm not sure about how it does overall beacuse I don't have a tablet. Also there's no reason you couldn't install parsec on fedora if it's available on flathub, probably missed something in the Flatpak setup. But alas distros tend to not have a good out-of-the-box UX nowadays mostly due to a focus and conflicts on how things work under the hood. Great that you have done a great effort to make it work for you when a lot of people don't bother. Nice video editing too