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These days the best way is to download the official ISO, install without key, open powershell with admin rights and run the massgrave one-liner script with a quick copy/paste.

Perfect, thanks! I kinda prefer github sources when available :)

Thanks so much! I never found that thread. Only another guy complaining about the same thing...I just ran the command, hopefully it won't do that crap anymore.

Seems the one I use is Maliit. It's on the chunky side, but for the few times I type without the real keyboard, it does the job just fine I guess.

Except battery lasts more on Linux. Not to mention suspend ACTUALLY works, and won't wake at random times while in your backpack and kill your battery before you can actually use it when you need it. Which Windows does. And yeah, most people do NOT need anything specific from Microsoft to be productive.

Yup. I think I needed to manually install the touch keyboard. But once installed, it works as expected. Touch the screen or remove the physical keyboard, and touch mode gets activated. Whenever touching a text field, the soft keyboard pops out. It's massive, though (well, about the same size as the one for Windows).

"KDE is heavy" is so 2000s. It's been quite a while since KDE is very tight on resources usage. Unless you're running a raspberry or similar, there's no point on constraining yourself with one of those desktops for an everyday use device.

Just to comment here. I installed KDE Neon on my SP7+. It took a bit of messing with the UEFI secure boot, but after that trouble...it's been mostly problem free for a couple of years, since I did it. I reckon it's just easier to have it all baked in, in my case I kinda preferred KDE neon as my choice first.

Beware of camera support. I'd bet it won't work on yours.

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Supported-Devices-and-Features#feature-matrix

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Camera-Support

Matte

Well the link went straight to a Google page. Many people here is trying to avoid Google services/products, so it made me suspicious.

Not sure why I'd want some private cloud system when HA can work on its own. I'd go zigbee, which doesn't require any cloud.

Hold my beer...