Microsoft is raising prices on all its current Surface PC offerings, with the midrange devices now starting at above $1,000, and flagships starting at $1,500.
Heck, my surface pro 3 makes a great Linux machine. Still tweaking it but the touchscreen works just fine with Mint, so even an old one could probably do just fine.
I remember when the first Surface released and Gabe from Penny Arcade was like “wtf this is better than iPad for drawing. why aren’t they advertising this aspect of it?”
I don’t know if that’s still true, but I always tucked it in the back of my mind when I was looking for drawing tablets.
TIL that they still made these
The slightly older ones make great Linux tablets. I use mine for comics.
Which Surface Pro version do you recommend? Are you using Ubuntu Touch?
I use a Surface Pro 6, I know of a guy with an 8 on Fedora. Mine’s on Cachy with Gnome.
There is a custom kernel you may need to get, https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface
Gnome kind of makes sense for touch.
I just threw Cachy onto an old Inspiron for a computer to have near me while recording instruments, but a Surface Pro would actually be much better.
How’s battery and did MS fix those shit house chargersthey had back when I had a Surface Pro 2?
Heck, my surface pro 3 makes a great Linux machine. Still tweaking it but the touchscreen works just fine with Mint, so even an old one could probably do just fine.
As long as you don’t mind the webcam not working, which except for the oldest models seemed to be a constant with the Surface tablets.
Saves me the trouble of putting a piece of tape over the camera
On Linux? Why?
I remember when the first Surface released and Gabe from Penny Arcade was like “wtf this is better than iPad for drawing. why aren’t they advertising this aspect of it?”
I don’t know if that’s still true, but I always tucked it in the back of my mind when I was looking for drawing tablets.