OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2

Re:OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2 by masnao on Saturday May 16, 2020 @04:59PM (#23207169)

every six months I try to install linux on my surface sans-number (between 5 and 6 I guess), find bogus linux kernel, try it out, regret imensely. go back to crapy-but-still-better-than-osx windows 10. then six+ months passes, I somehow forget about all this and repeat.

surface tablets would be a killer machine if I could dual boot linux on it for serious work.

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Re:OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2 by zozbot234 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:06PM (#23207226)

BayTrail and CherryTrail hardware has been like that for a very long time, now it works flawlessly. And there's a LOT of it in the used market - lots and lots of crappy Win8 and Win10-based "tablets" that can now become far more usable with Linux and the Gnome UX.

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Re:OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2 by halotrope on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:59PM (#23207569)

Installing this kernel makes it work amazing: https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface

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Re:OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2 by notpiika on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:27PM (#23208971)

I'd recommend the actively maintained https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface instead, which has support for newer Surface devices as well.

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Re:OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2 by masnao on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:49AM (#23248295)

see this is what i mean.

every kernel has pros and cons. all of them are wonderful until you hit a con.

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Re:OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2 by rowanG077 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @05:00PM (#23215445)

what issues have you been running into? I have been running Linux on the Surface Pro 5 solely without even having windows to dual boot for almost 3 years now.

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