I really want my primary mobile computer to be a tablet mainly because I genuinely like the form factor. My current Linux laptop is dying and I thought I'd just buy the newest Lenovo Thinkpad Surface clone but Lenovo seems to have discontinued it because I couldn't find a 2025 version anywhere, same with HP and Dell's Surface clones. And most of the Windows tablets I could find online have dinky Intel N processors instead of Core.

Can anyone recommend a high end tablet that runs Linux well? Failing that, how bad is the Surface really with Linux as the only OS?

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

It competent runs Indy and older games

It runs games on par with the steam deck. Works great for a lot of newer or demanding titles if you set the settings apropriately.


Does your pen/sylus work?

I also have a minisforum V3 running archlinux and I can't get the stylus to write in rnote or to draw in krita or to work in Osu!. It just moves the cursor but it never "clicks".

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes I got a generic surface pen and it worked out of the box without any tweaking.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have the official minisforum v3 pen.

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  • Ahh, I got mine used when a window 11 update "bricked" a lots of them. Rather than do am RMA this guy just got a new one and gave me the old ones saying if I could fix it then I could keep it.

    Unbricking was not easy so I can understand why he just replaced it.

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