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Quote of the day:
"Naturally, were I to buy one, I would have to install Linux onto it."
That really explains my first day.
I installed Arch on Surface Pro 6. And have GNOME and KDE installed. Pen and touch works perfectly (when it works), like it recognizes pressure, but sometimes need to restart the surface after putting it in standby because it fails to detect pen(and touch as well).
Camera is kinda wonky, it kinds works with cheese but not with other applications, and I couldn't manage to make the back camera work.
WiFi and Bluetooth works fine (there are some issues with bluetooth when standby but haven't looked much into that)
Downsides
Neither KDE nor Gnome is optimized to operate as a touch DE. Pen on KDE is detected as mouse(well its detected as pen but proxy as mouse input if a program doesn't support pen; like if I try to scroll firefox using pen, it works like I have right clicked mouse and am dragging up, so selecting text instead of scrolling), but touch works as expected.
And UX for on-screen keyboard(OSK) is not on par with Windows. It kinda works with GNOME, like a program window slides up if it were to be overlayed by OSK but its still wonky. And I didn't had good xp with OSK.
But overall, I like it. Its not really powerful enough to do any development, but I use it for multimedia and eBook reader
I tried arch with the Posh desktop, awell as plasma mobile. They work really well and are intended for mobile devices
Thank you. I will try these. Have you tried PostmarketOS or have any idea how it works on surface?