What crawled in your coffee and died this morning? It’s attitudes like this that stop people from wanting to switch to linux. Someone considering it will scroll through, see you being a dickhead, and go: Well…if this is what the community is like, idk if I want to try linux…

Check yourself pal. You’ve got a removed attitude, and you’re doing no one any favours.

I wasn’t bashing it. I actually honestly believe that the person ripping me for using Nobara and having the SP4 as a toy meant what they said about uBlue based distros were better than Nobara, especially since Nobara is built and maintained by one guy.
Again not casting shade. If I can figure out the issue I’m having with it, or give up, I’ll be putting one of the ones you just mentioned on mine and taking it for a spin.

I have a Surface Pro 4, was running Nobara, but I’m trying to troubleshoot a weird issue with it. When I was talking about Nobara in a different post a month or so ago, a neckbeard essentially called me an idiot for using Nobara, and said I should use a UBlue variant. I’ve not used it, but it comes highly recommended by the guy who thought it was weird that I’d buy an old not entirely reliable piece of hardware to just have as essentially a toy…so there’s that.
Surface kernel can be added onto most distros. So if the offerings with it preinstalled don’t suit your fancy there’s instructions on the Surface kernel site.

Depends entirely on how it’s implemented. But almost certainly yes

Just used it the other day to put together a birthday slideshow/video compilation for my wife. I couldn’t get resolve to run, and I was in a hurry because my organisation skills are severely lacking. Kdenlive was perfectly serviceable, easy to understand, and I got a really acceptably decent end product with absolutely no previous experience. Definitely be using it again when my wife forgets this year’s gift and I can reuse all the photos I got off her friends 🙃

Sorry, it sounds like you’re poopooing having something purely for fun? I spent less on it than I would a night out with the wife, and it’s got hardware issues that make it not a great candidate for a daily driver. So it’s a toy. shrugs

Fair enough, I hadn’t known about Ublue. Give it a go tonight. That said, running Nobara, I’ve not had any unexpected errors. And it’s not like I actually do anything that puts any of my info to exposure on my SP4. No email, banking, messaging, don’t even log into my Firefox account. I basically use it for retro gaming, reading manga, and not a whole lot else tbh.

Sure does pal! There’s a non-surface version, but as far as I know it’s the only distro that includes it stock. And on my SP4 it’s been absolutely butter smooth.

Have an SP4 now, running Nobara KDE, because I’m too lazy to install the surface Linux kernel on a different distro. It’s pretty great. I bought a cheap one, and it has some issues unrelated to Linux. In fact it runs a lot better and the hardware issues are alleviated slightly after removing windows.
Long story short, would highly recommend buying a not borked Surface and slapping Linux on it.

I believe in you. Just have the ArchWiki open. It’s really going to be your friend if you’ve not compiled Arch from scratch before.

By turn your life around you mean bought a new Think pad and put Arch on it, right?

Mmmmmm…that feeling when everything just finally falls into place and works right. chef’s kiss

Big oof. May the kernel be with you.

Hey, it’s been well over a decade, and the largest problem I have is a crippling addiction to distro hopping…

Thanks for sharing this, was a neat look under the hood.

Yes! Asiany quick pickled soy eggs? Great!
Eggs pickled with dill, garlic and chilies? Also…believe it or not…removedin great!
Eggs hard/soft boiled halved with a sprinkle of dill, a touch of cheese and a light drizzle of vinegar? Brilliant little snack!

Have you? Not being a dick here, it’s legit delicious!

I like pain

I am in this picture and I don’t like it…

Touché

I have arch (btw) on my desktop and Pop OS on my laptop

Yeah, my desktop runs arch one laptop runs Ubuntu server and I have a surface 4 running Nobara (a flavour of fesora)