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This video not only covered almost everything about the upgrade process, but also covered some things to think about before proceeding (feasibility, how about an m.2 drive instead, etc.). Things a lot of content creators miss. Also, KABABAYANNNN. Nakakaproud maging Pinoy dahil sayo bro.

This video unironically gets me so excited

I'm doing this soon with the Surface Pro 7

So sad that Linux can't work for you. I just install Fedora 40 on my aspire switch 12, it was the best experience than original windows. I got the ram usage around 1.8gb after installed all the applications. All the drivers and touch screen works.. Just a small nick picker but manageable.. I never going back to windows for this old touch laptop.

Pretty funny video :) Great job!! Did do a video on the Linux tablet (x86), that could be a good surface replacment :)

Yo tenía problemas con genome,todos los días se me bloqueaba.Busque información y instale KDE plasma y desde entonces no e vuelto a tener problemas.Kde + Fedora son increíbles en mi surface Go

I have the same surface go 4gb/64gb. I recently installed debian with Gnome and it runs extremely well. with Windows performances are very slow, with debian it seems another PC completely, i can even run a qemu-kvm Virtual Machine with windows 8.1 embedded just for running office (ms excel) and still have good performance in the debian browser, wirhout even stopping the vm.

The problem wasn't Linux, the problem was the Surface.

bro, your content style is nice.

Kubuntu works very well on the Surface Go. Both in tablet mode (with maliit keyboard and firefox) and as a laptop with the keyboard. KDE Plasma seems much better than gnome for tablets / convertibles.

I have a 8gb 128gb surface go 1824. Anyways you can test with custom roms?

All the distros you tried use the GNOME desktop environment on their main edition, which is to blame for the lack of a graphical setting for the touchpad scrolling speed. You should try a KDE spin of a distro, KDE has that setting and many other settings that you'd want that gnome doesn't include for some reason. But it wouldn't make for an entartaining video segment. It also has some goodies specifically for tablets with "tablet mode" that makes the ui bigger when only the touchscreen is available, customisable gestures from screen edges , and a better on-screen keyboard AFAIK, though I'm not sure about how it does overall beacuse I don't have a tablet. Also there's no reason you couldn't install parsec on fedora if it's available on flathub, probably missed something in the Flatpak setup. But alas distros tend to not have a good out-of-the-box UX nowadays mostly due to a focus and conflicts on how things work under the hood. Great that you have done a great effort to make it work for you when a lot of people don't bother. Nice video editing too

That's my graphics card (RX 580 8GB.... i have 2 of them). I use Fedora and this card does REALLY well with the one game i play.

Gnome de with an arched based distro would probably be cool

The camera is possible, down in the surface-linux project they have a set of commands to download and re-compile the camera library to work. I have Linux on my gen 1 surface go now for several months and no its not always ideal but it runs better than windows did.

If parsec was available via flatpak, it would have worked on fedora too (at least it should have)

Just installed Tiny11 on my Surface Go 1 - Seems better than the stock Windows 10 it had

Hi. Try to install tiny windows 11. I installed this version of Windows on all my devices and am very happy. It works simular to Linux, but everising works correctly 👌

Complaining about Linux not working on Microsoft made hardware? Ehm.

10:54 The linux chad I am (just joking) would rather recommend using some easy-to-use container so you can have all the ubuntu apps you want on any other distro. The most simple I can think of for this use is Distrobox (but your app will run a bit slower than on native ubuntu of course)

I got gnu (fedora) running on Asus Transformer Mini (10"). It's awesome.

you could install flatpaks in fedora

Well explained sir! Thank you for this comprehensive guide <3

the struggle of installing Linux...

a custom paintjob it would be great

It feels like if Ubuntu likes hardware, it will run like a butter. If Ubuntu doesn't like hardware, then it's user's problem - figure it out, recode entire OS or whatnot. I wonder why people don't want to go to Linux after that? ngl, I used Linux Mint and never had similar issues, but I also never used Surface Go.

Hey! Have you tried FydeOS? they have a special ROM for Surface GO. And Also it's almost like chrome OS :) hope you like it and test it.

8:20 you don’t need to search for flathub, flatpak already pulls from it, you just search for the package you want

CZcams keeps recommending me Linux content, very nice

The usual Linux challenges - compounded by the really quite nasty closed off bios, hardware, and surface shit. I support a fleet of surface kit at work, and have done for years. Not a fan. Cheap nasty hardware, and cheap nasty firmware. The models that have that removable keyboard - are a better thing, because the number of failing keys/keyboards in the non removable models is unfunny..

I think Ultramarine Linux will be a good solution that will allow use Parsec without any problems, since this distribution is a properly preconfigured Fedora. Thanks to this, Flatpak should work out of the box. At the moment of writing this comment, Ultramarine does not yet have installation images based on Fedora version 40 - but you can upgrade from version 39 to 40 without any problems. As for GNOME being a bit more RAM consuming, I think "zram" will be able to smooth out this disadvantage a bit. So, if you intend to use zram, at the same time make sure to increase its (and not only its) performance by disabling Meltdown/Spectre patches. Because they reduce the overall CPU performance by up to 10~20% (depending on the CPU model). By the way, Chris Titus Tech showed this in one of his videos, namely in "Speed Up Linux"

KDE works better on Surface. I have a Fedora KDE and it just works! On screen keyboard works too

You should have given a shot to atleast one of the arch based distros like endavour or garuda tbh

The biggest mistake was probably expect it to work like a Mac or a Windows laptop.

any particular reason for running ubuntu 22.04 instead of 24.04?

That's why I don't use Ubuntu as my main Linux distro OS. For Linux Surface, I use Big Linux. It is way way way easy in both tablet and laptop or desktop.

$60? That's really cheap. How about PeppermintOS? Was able to install ChromeOS on usb drive and it works ok, but it heats too much. Edit: You can get Windows 10/11 recovery from Microsoft. Dunno if that would be better/faster.

I remember I put Linux on a sg1 base and I tried duel booting with 64gb of ram. Linux would sometimes fail to boot cuz it ran out of space and I would have to live boot to clean the partition

I used to daily a weird Surface Go 1 4gb and NVME storage with Windows. Everything runs smoothly except when the disk starts reading/writing. I didn't expect the user experience with linux on surfaces to be that difficult. I now use this cheap, little i7 8th gen dell using Ubuntu and it's been pretty reliable except this weird bug that stutters the audio.

Linux and Microsoft Surface, huh? Hope your poor soul recover. Also thanks a lot for your old video about ssd + hdd on any laptop. Really helped me back in high shcool. Cheers!

Not immediately installing Arch or even Endeavor? Womp womp

Very informative and i loved the vibe of your editing

Thanks for catching the limitation of the Msata interface is limited to 240MB. My old laptop needs to upgrade from its old USB 2.0 and 100Mbs Ethernet. In your research, have you thought about a msata out from the laptop interface to either a USB 3.0 or Gig Lan? I imagine it would be nice if the caddy could be fabricated into a little hub interface.

Do u have one video of Transform old laptop To transparant laptop with modern BIG battery OLED screen backlight keyboard HDcam tunderbOlt slot and 5.1 speaker inside?? Dont think abOut GPU like PC 1st

Thanks. it is a perfect guide

Looks like epson proyectors

The latest bios without Spectre, and Meltdown patches is A24 for those wondering. However more than A21 has very little patches. However, it is not recommend to upgrade past A24 becasue of the peformance loss.

Amazing 👏

Nice one. I came here via the search of optiplex 9020 rivet removal. Thanks for creating. Keep up the great work.

what's the difference between these MSA and CSA? Is there some kind of height difference? Because I found keycap sets where they look exactly the same, the color, same legends but one says CSA and the other says MSA