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[-] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 5 points 4 days ago

I put pop!_os on my surface pro 8 in an hour a week ago, having used only windows or macos for the past decade. No issues. They've upstreamed enough stuff to the linux kernel that everything except camera worked even without the surface_linux kernel. Steam runs just fine on it, as do all the games I've tried so far (obviously hardware is trash for gaming, but hey, if it was playable on windows, it'll probably be smoother on linux at this point). If linux works on a microsoft surface, there's no way that it won't work on whatever machine you happen to have.

Back up your files, pick a distro, unlock your bootloader, and just go for it. Only requirement is to know how to... Run commands in a terminal.

No regrets.

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