Set up Ubuntu on Surface Pro 8 (touchscreen and stylus working)

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Working:
keyboard, trackpad, touchscreen (multi-touch), stylus
Not working:
camera

[@ahmedalsadi0010]

I don't have surface tablet but great video to watch

[@pliniosborges7963]

Thank you helped a lot

[@RAYY_WILD]

how about other linux distros like kali for example?

[@parravel]

Tks for the detailed walk-trough. I've installed ubuntu 22.04 (SF PRO7) and the keyboard and trackpad work by default. So should I start with the second part (Touch drivers) or should I do the entire process Once again thx!

[@Uthur]

I was attempting to put mint on my same surface but it keeps giving me errors and sitting on the mint load screen. The first issue I was running into was the encryption I removed that and then I used advanced restart to load from the USB but still errors

[@anno7947]

how can i remove the ninja -C ? after is install this, i have problems with the pen.

[@kossmaas6876]

Do you use 2x scaling or fractional? Is it comfortable to use with scaling at all? How about cameras, do they work?

[@michaelhuang1009]

I used no scaling. No, camera doesn't work.

[@michaelhuang1009]

Actually I used 2x scaling. It feels natural. Noticed no slow down

[@raggadaz]

does this secure boot thing work ? I have to disable security in bios otherwise booting fails

[@JoseManuel-pn3dh]

What is battery life like ? And ho does pen works compared to windows ?

[@michaelhuang1009]

Battery life is alright (better than running windows). The pen is not as sensitive as on windows, but still usable. I would recommend keeping a windows partition if you use hand written note taking very heavily

[@a.n1768]

Could using external SSD box to dual boot?

[@lovis1188]

So I followed everything you said, and on the test Multitouch worked, but after the install it just doesn't, any idea what could have gone wrong? Also my pen doesn't work either

[@michaelhuang1009]

Make sure ur Linux version is 22.04 Ubuntu. I tried other districts. They don’t necessarily work. Otherwise, try again. If it doesn’t work you could take a look at the websites I included under discussion. There are ppl talking about how to resolve their specific issues there.

[@Skattel]

What keyboard are you using?

[@michaelhuang1009]

Surface pro's official keyboard