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Don’t know how these are now, but my buddy had a Surface Pro 4, and that thing made me regret buying what i had at the time. Ran like a dream, especially considering the form factor. Very unexpected
Have an SP4 now, running Nobara KDE, because I'm too lazy to install the surface Linux kernel on a different distro. It's pretty great. I bought a cheap one, and it has some issues unrelated to Linux. In fact it runs a lot better and the hardware issues are alleviated slightly after removing windows.
Long story short, would highly recommend buying a not borked Surface and slapping Linux on it.
Does Nobara have surface kernel built in?!?? This is news to me, might reinstall due to this.
Sure does pal! There's a non-surface version, but as far as I know it's the only distro that includes it stock. And on my SP4 it's been absolutely butter smooth.