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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by sxates on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:58PM (#14248809)
I just can't see anyone inside MS being able to make the case that they should put effort into making their laptops run anything other than Windows. But I agree with you. I tried to set up Linux on my Surface Book, but couldn't get the keyboard to work :/
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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by chaostheory on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:08PM (#14248922)
Still inside Windows, but it's a good start https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about

Personally I prefer this over a vm, dual boot or running Linux exclusively

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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by dhimes on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:28PM (#14250262)
This is excellent, but I've also had great luck with recent versions of VirtualBox.
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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by eropple on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:40PM (#14250886)
VirtualBox has improved over time, but it's still a battery vacuum.
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