Do you have a link where someone describes how he got Ubuntu to run on the Go natively without installing software from outside of the repos? The user reports I saw did not get WiFi to work with what is in the Ubuntu repos.
Does anyone know what the difference is between installing this custom kernel and merely replacing the WiFi's firmware as outlined here[0]? More generally, what features does the custom kernel add? (I've searched their wiki but the feature matrix they present there doesn't really say what features they added.)
[UPDATE]: Never mind, the repo's `patches` directory[1] answers my question.
This seems to be a compatibility list of Surface devices with a special kernel made by someone. I don't see how it is related to what is in the Ubuntu repos?
If anything, the exsitence of this kernel seems to be an indication that the major distributions do not cope well with the Surface and do not work out of the box.
I'd be interested in this as well, though I'm not getting my hopes up. For instance, this relatively recent tutorial[0], too, says you have to install a custom kernel to fix the WiFi on Linux Mint. :\
KitDuncan|5 years ago
Wifi should work out of the box.
codethief|5 years ago
[UPDATE]: Never mind, the repo's `patches` directory[1] answers my question.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/94hjxv/surfac...
[1] https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/tree/master/p...
no_gravity|5 years ago
If anything, the exsitence of this kernel seems to be an indication that the major distributions do not cope well with the Surface and do not work out of the box.
codethief|5 years ago
[0] https://bytewelder.com/posts/2019/08/13/surface-go-linux-min...