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I hate MS, but this looks like a genuinely nice piece of hardware... I wonder if it can run anything other than Windows without being half broken, then I might be interested.

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Looks like everyone is thinking the same thing :P Now who can we pay to invest a month hacking away at figuring out how to get all the bits of hardware working in Linux?

Following the link various others have posted here [1], it looks like the surface book 2 support isn't completely terrible, much better than i expected, but not amazing either... Broken things and things that require more effort are:

    - Sleep S3 broken
    - Video is dual nVidia GPU, requires bumblebee
    - TouchPad and Pen broken, work with a custom Linux kernel
    - PCI camera(s) not working
The touchpad is probably gona be the most annoying one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/7kazwp/curren...



> Now who can we pay to invest a month hacking away at figuring out how to get all the bits of hardware working in Linux?

There is donation information at:

https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface




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