Re: What hardware are you using?
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:39 pm
Windows is just poorly designed. Window notifies me on a regular basis that my system is not fully secure because I am not using the default setting for Edge (I changed to DuckDuckGo for search), while installing application and drivers without asking permission to do so. So they use an very common vector of attack to install software I did not ask for, while complaining about changing browser preferences. I do not see this as an issue; I see it as just plain stupidity.
The Surface Go 2 is a nice piece of high quality hardware. The cameras are good, Windows Hello works and is amuzing, pen support for notes, scribbling and doodling is great and the keyboard is a bit small, but very useable. Windows is not a great tablet OS and well Linux is not a great tablet OS either. Windows does make good use of pen input and the cameras and Windows software for the camera is also very good. Yesterday afternoon my Granddaughter and I used 3d Paint to create a dragon vs toad battle over the panorama picture of a waterfall we had taken earlier and it was great fun.
There is a specific github project that is devoted to making Linux run well on the Surface. The cameras for the Surface Go 2 are specifically listed as having no Linux support. Although oddly they can be used with a pam module for log in purposes. There are new versions of Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian arriving fairly soon and I will be looking more closely at Linux options after they arrive. For the time being I have only been trying live images that I have on hand.
The Surface Go 2 is a nice piece of high quality hardware. The cameras are good, Windows Hello works and is amuzing, pen support for notes, scribbling and doodling is great and the keyboard is a bit small, but very useable. Windows is not a great tablet OS and well Linux is not a great tablet OS either. Windows does make good use of pen input and the cameras and Windows software for the camera is also very good. Yesterday afternoon my Granddaughter and I used 3d Paint to create a dragon vs toad battle over the panorama picture of a waterfall we had taken earlier and it was great fun.
There is a specific github project that is devoted to making Linux run well on the Surface. The cameras for the Surface Go 2 are specifically listed as having no Linux support. Although oddly they can be used with a pam module for log in purposes. There are new versions of Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian arriving fairly soon and I will be looking more closely at Linux options after they arrive. For the time being I have only been trying live images that I have on hand.