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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 27 points 14 hours ago (28 children)

Install Linux, Problem Solved.

This is the Year of the Linux Desktop.

[–] Autisti4@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm trying :( but they don't work well enough on my stupid machine

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Post to the appropriate community, someone will help.

[–] Autisti4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I've tried :( just seems it's not possible

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I must say, I am very curious about your system now. Feel free to send me a message if you want some help.

[–] Autisti4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I just have a surface pro 7. Since it's microslop-build, getting the touch screen and pen to work properly might be impossible, since I couldn't get it to be good enough even with the linux-surface-kernel, and have not really found any hope online. As my main use for the thing is art, rendering it useless just to get it on linux isn't exactly something I want... :(

I kinda gave up for now and switched to win10 since I don't enjoy distro hopping. I might just have to wait until the linux-surface-kernel evolves to be more compatible or I find some solid confirmation someone has managed to make the thing work perfectly with a distro...

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

surface pro 7 Oof, some of those surface devices have been especially painful to get working (or impossible in some rare cases). I did just see this which is an active project and may end up being helpful if you try again https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

[–] Autisti4@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah... :( I got this before win11 was a thing, but had there been other viable options for what I needed, I wouldn't have bought anything microsoft-made in the first place

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