Turns out the reply in my thread telling me the best way to combat not caring about Linux is to care about Linux was absolutely correct.
I picked up a laptop, installed Linux Mint Cinnamon, and I’m already obsessed. I haven’t had this much fun with a PC in a long time and it’s just a cheapo Dell Inspiron 3520.
That’s it, I’m joining tomorrow by installing Linux on my surface pro 3. Mint y’all say?
Not to scare you away, but I have experience getting Linux to run on a Surface Laptop 2 and… It’s not exactly the easiest process…
For my machine it required a custom kernel to get the touchpad and keyboard working and it just always had one quirk or another.
Highly recommend Linux, but those surface devices need some specialized drivers…
Please chose mint debian
Yeap, Linux Mint is an awesome distro for beginners and pros alike. It’s rock solid stable and not too far from the look and feel of classic windows.
How’s touch though? From what I’ve tried Linux touch doesn’t scroll the way Windows does.
EDIT: It was just firefox I was thinking of. One line added to a config and touch scrolls just fine.
Touch is just fine, and assuming you have multitouch there are good options for gesture controls
It should with some tweaking
Do you mean touchpad or touchscreen?
In both cases they should work out of the box and depending on your distro/DE, your default touchpad settings may vary.
But that’s why programs like touche and touchegg exist.
Oh I meant touch screen. In my experience they do work out of the box, but not quite in the way I expect is all. I’m already dual booting so I could easily test out that stuff.