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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by elif on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:09PM (#10340432)
yes. I run ubuntu on my surface pro. Everything works well, with reasonably good battery life (not as good as win10, obviously).

it is a painful install process, but that should change completely with ubuntu 15.10

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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by Aldo_MX on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @03:53PM (#10341843)
I have a Surface Pro 1, and installed Ubuntu and Linux Mint pretty easy... but I wouldn't use any Linux in a Surface honestly, the Desktop Environments are far from having decent HDPI support, and the touch experience is still far from feeling usable.
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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by elipsey on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:13PM (#10340478)
Why painful? Can you desable secureboot, but UEFI on Ubuntu is still sucky?
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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by rickyc091 on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:58PM (#10341435)
Ubuntu 14 doesn't support a lot of the latest hardware at the moment. I had an Intel i7 NUC and installing ubuntu 14 on it was a nightmare... You fix one thing to move the installer, another thing breaks. It's trial and error. Ubuntu 15 was just straight forward, one click install.
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