krash

+1 on tabby. Another nice feature tabby has is sync of secrets and settings. It is not very resource efficient, but it's still nice.

Huh, I've tried booting from ubuntu and fedora sticks with no luck but ventoy would?! I'll have to try that and if it would work, my mind will be blown 🤯

I have the Go gen 1 with 4 Gb ram, for the exact same user cases ad you described.

The compatibility with Linux is great, but be mindful that you need a Windows installation to boot from USB (!). But the pen and touchscreen works out of the box.

The performance though is not the best, boot can take some time. I'd say forget about YouTube. But light coding and non-demanding websites could work. The form factor is great though... 😊

OP, if you're interested in buying a used one, we could perhaps arrange something, if you live in Europe? Message me in that case.

PS. A Linux surface community would be great, I'd happily join it!

This was dumb on so many levels.

I downloaded an iso and was supposed to dd it to my USB drive. You can see where this is leading, but it's worse than you think.

I overwrote the hdd. While I was on an airplane. Of a macbook air that I had no idea how to restore to a functioning state. And this was my workplace laptop.

Like I said, dumb on many levels...

Edit: while the question is about breaking ones Linux installation, one could argue that macOS share the same lineage as Linux and share many similarities.

I see briar in there, bravo!