does touch screen and pen support work fine? if I can take my surface pro 7 and install linux and still use onenote for windows 10 and take notes use the touch screen I would switch. I know RStudio and VScode runs natively on Linux, as do most data science apps do. would be nice getting more than 3 hours of battery life on my surface pro 7 lol.
This solved my camera problems: eric@sasquatch:~$ ls -la /dev/video* crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Jan 14 13:43 /dev/video0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 1 Jan 14 13:43 /dev/video1 eric@sasquatch:~$ sudo chmod 777 /dev/video0 eric@sasquatch:~$ sudo chmod 777 /dev/video1
I wouldn't set 777 though - this is "allow everything", you would want something more restrictive. Like adding your user to the "video" group, than set 6 for that group only, and denies for everybody else.
Wait till you encounter your first dumbest little problem, like a faulty driver update 😂! It may be a matter of a few mouse clicks everywhere else, but here you're gonna be looking up command lines off the whole internet to copy and paste into the "lovely" Linux terminal, provided you have internet connection on the bricked machine! If you belong to the 95% of normal pc users, after some time of this Linux crap, you'll be willing to even buy a whole new MacBook, not just pay Microsoft for all the abuse!
Linux is monolith. It's designed to have all drivers into already. Some could be done as stand-alone modules, but this is used for often changed like nvidia.
@alexzk3 You need to replace your open-source Nvidia drivers (if the distro even has them at all) with the proprietary drivers, and in order to uninstall such a faulty proprietary driver installation, you're gonna have to search for command lines off the internet to copy, paste, and run in that "beloved" Linux terminal, which everybody with better things to do absolutely can't bare even the sight of, after having to mess with it already, in order to fix the simplest little problem, even on something like Zorin. Been there, done that, and not only that, cause I like distro hoping, just to enjoy the new eye candy of the given newest release ☺️. I know exactly what it is to brick your system even more, on all of this Linux advice available on the internet.
How am I supposed to learn Linux if nothing breaks? It's been a month now. I want my money back
Wait you use it and it's perfect?
You described my gen 5 Surface Pro exactly - battery is toast.
I'm curious, camera is not working, anything else ? Like the touchscreen or physical buttons of the surface
Linux users always decide that they don't need the hardware that doesn't work under Linux.
There may or may not be an eventual fix for a lot of those things. I never know and many of them don't either lol
does touch screen and pen support work fine? if I can take my surface pro 7 and install linux and still use onenote for windows 10 and take notes use the touch screen I would switch. I know RStudio and VScode runs natively on Linux, as do most data science apps do. would be nice getting more than 3 hours of battery life on my surface pro 7 lol.
This solved my camera problems:
eric@sasquatch:~$ ls -la /dev/video*
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Jan 14 13:43 /dev/video0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 1 Jan 14 13:43 /dev/video1
eric@sasquatch:~$ sudo chmod 777 /dev/video0
eric@sasquatch:~$ sudo chmod 777 /dev/video1
I wouldn't set 777 though - this is "allow everything", you would want something more restrictive. Like adding your user to the "video" group, than set 6 for that group only, and denies for everybody else.
Thinkpad X12 detachable gen 1 has good linux support. Probably gen 2 as well. Including camera iirc.
you could have shown how it's performing.
Wait till you encounter your first dumbest little problem, like a faulty driver update 😂! It may be a matter of a few mouse clicks everywhere else, but here you're gonna be looking up command lines off the whole internet to copy and paste into the "lovely" Linux terminal, provided you have internet connection on the bricked machine! If you belong to the 95% of normal pc users, after some time of this Linux crap, you'll be willing to even buy a whole new MacBook, not just pay Microsoft for all the abuse!
Linux is monolith. It's designed to have all drivers into already. Some could be done as stand-alone modules, but this is used for often changed like nvidia.
@alexzk3 You need to replace your open-source Nvidia drivers (if the distro even has them at all) with the proprietary drivers, and in order to uninstall such a faulty proprietary driver installation, you're gonna have to search for command lines off the internet to copy, paste, and run in that "beloved" Linux terminal, which everybody with better things to do absolutely can't bare even the sight of, after having to mess with it already, in order to fix the simplest little problem, even on something like Zorin. Been there, done that, and not only that, cause I like distro hoping, just to enjoy the new eye candy of the given newest release ☺️. I know exactly what it is to brick your system even more, on all of this Linux advice available on the internet.