• Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Incidentally, I had the exact same device. It actually worked pretty good to be honest!

    Of course it will not magically be a top tier device. Programs will need some time to load the first time, and then be thrown out of RAM again.
    BUT, compared to Windows, it will be a difference between night and day!

    I strongly recommend you the silverblue-main-surface-image from universal-blue.org.

    Why?

    • Because you need the linux-surface-kernel for it to work. Otherwise, most functions, like touchscreen, webcam, adaptive brightness, auto-rotate and more won’t work at all.
    • You can install the kernel on other distros too, but it might break. I had that already happening. On uBlue, it’s baked in and won’t break. And if it does, you can just roll back.
    • It comes with Gnome by default and provides you a great touchscreen experience
    • And you can install Waydroid easily, which gives you access to Android apps.

    I don’t recommend using another DE than Gnome for that. Especially those “light weight” ones like XFCE are horrible for touchscreens, and if you use a browser, those few hundred MBs RAM less used by them is negotiable.

    • JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Thanks for the advice, I’d not heard of that particular distro. I’m quite comfortable with Fedora so I think I’ll give it a shot