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Tracking and meta repository for Surface Pro X support.
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Is arch still the best (and only ) option Aug 2024 ? #49

Open Kiwimannen opened 2 months ago

Kiwimannen commented 2 months ago

I have been holding of installing linux on my Surface Pro X simply because i didnt think it was possible - have a Lenovo X13S that works perfect with Ubuntu.

Seeing it is possible I went looking for a prebuilt image without luck - however, I was able to boot and install a base-installation of Armbian Debian/Ubuntu Minimal (Uefi Arm64) - on Debian it was even possible to install Gnome desktop (without any hardware support of course)

I was even able to boot the installment of Fedora 40 Arm64, but it failed to install - no big suprise there.

I have seen and booted the prebuilt arch start-image here on github, but since im not familiar with arch, i have been holding off.

Is it still the best and only option ?

qzed commented 2 months ago

At the moment, we only provide packages and pre-built images for Arch, so you'd have to build your own packages for other distros.

Kiwimannen commented 2 months ago

OK, thanks - will try it :)