A Year with the Surface Go

Re:A Year with the Surface Go by zozbot234 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @06:15PM (#22149247)

> Aside from the small size, I hate it. I can't think of a time when I bought a new computer (including phones and tablets) and was immediately underwhelmed by its performance. It is so slow.

Put Linux on it and it's not so slow anymore. With 4GB of RAM you can even run the GNOME desktop (for its touch friendliness) with few or no memory issues, without ever hitting swap. The 'tablet' experience is vastly better on recent versions of GNOME than it ever was on Windows 10, and easily on a par with the new iPadOS. It actually turns tablet computers into a form factor you can use professionally.

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Re:A Year with the Surface Go by predators372 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @06:52PM (#22149411)

How exactly do you do that? I have been using windows on my surface go solely because I gave up trying to figure out all the secureboot settings and how to turn enough things off to get a live USB to boot. I would love to switch, but it was so difficult and I never did accomplish it!

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Re:A Year with the Surface Go by zozbot234 on Sunday January 26, 2020 @04:32AM (#22151262)

If you can get to the firmware settings, there should be an option to 'disable secure boot', 'enable third-party OS's' or the like. Then you should be able to boot anything that has been properly signed, at least. I'm quite sure that people have done this, even on the Surface Go.

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Re:A Year with the Surface Go by diffeomorphism on Sunday January 26, 2020 @04:33AM (#22151264)

https://www.infofuge.com/install-ubuntu-18-04-on-microsoft-s...

Ubuntu support secure boot. You probably mean fastboot?

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