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I would like to share with you a very cool project that develops drivers for correct operation of Microsoft Surface devices on Linux. I myself use Surface Pro 6 with these drivers and everything works like a charm (battery life is good, cameras work, stylus, keyboard, touchscreen, screen). The developers are gods. From myself, I would recommend using Fedora Linux distribution, as I got the best battery life on it and didn't experience any additional bugs. If you don't like GNOME, you can try spins.

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[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Security? Maybe. Privacy? Too hard and nonsense to implement hardware tracking to spy on 1% of users without Windows.

[–] privsecfoss@feddit.dk 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Agree on privacy. And why bother when Intel/AMD have their Management Engine (ME) and AMD their equivalent.

But why support a company like Microsoft when they have a long history of prioritizing profit over user freedom (FOSS/EEE), security and privacy?

[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Because there is no such well made 2-in-1 device from System76, Tuxedo or some another good manufacturer.