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this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
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I have a Microsoft Surface 7 running NixOS. Everything works, even touch/pen
@mjpc13 @cyclohexane that’s impressive. Would mean the laptops should also be supported ? Was it hard to do?
It was not too hard if you are already familiar with Nix. The features supported (and the custom Linux kernel) can be found in surface-linux. For NixOS I used the nix-hardware flake to simplify things.
The worst part was the compilation of the Linux kernel, that took hours on the surface. Eventually, I used the remote nix build feature to compile on a more capable computer.
@mjpc13 this would be an amazing blog if you wrote it up. Front page HN content right here. Very cool stuff. Thank you for sharing.
Maybe I'll write something in the future