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Microsoft reveals major price increase for all Surface PCs as RAM crisis continues (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I had one of these about 10 years ago. Pretty nice little things. However, since moving to Linux exclusively 8 years ago, I don't miss them at all. Plus, with all the publicly facing bullshit from Microsoft, it blows my kind that people will still spend money on this. Not an Apple fan either, but you can get a very powerful Mac for the sake money.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface makes most of the features "just work" in mainstream distros on these devices.

    In the laptop that can also be a decent tablet sometimes space, the brand still does really well, though most people are probably fine with tablet that can be a decent laptop sometimes. Hopefully mobile linux projects like mobian and postmarketos allow the later idea have more than iOS and Android as viable options soon.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I don't have a tablet precisely for that reason. Until I can have a full Linux driven tablet, I'll keep to phones and computers.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Dude I have a good news for ya. Look for refurbished surface until the 8 these beast run Linux amazingly once you use the surface kernel from https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface. I installed waydroid to get androids apps, buy I noticed I start it less and less.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the tip. I guess I'll dive into eBay and see what I can find. I want 2 Linux tablets, 1 for myself (reading comics and books since I jumped the Kindle ship long ago, watching my Jellyfin library on the couch, etc),and one to put on the wall as a central command center for my Home assistant.

    I really appreciate it, because I did let my hate for Microsoft keep me from ever looking in that direction. Thanks so much bud.

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