Bazzite is probably a safe bet.

When I first installed linux I set up a dualboot because I still had data on windows. A week passes, I get cocky, I customize the grub loader, somehow nuked the windows install in the process because (unbeknownst to me, I was installing a new bootloader on the linux drive) I ran some commands off the stack exchange. When I went to my windows drive the C part was gone-gone, I had documents on that C drive. Said to myslef “I guess I have a free drive now” and never looked back.

Those documents were important, no backups. Time, nerves and money consuming to get them again.

As good as tailscale is, I do so loathe it. It does make things easy, but I have to trust a 3rd party with my traffic and for me thats just no bueno.

For that style of laptops give aurora a try, its basically fedora, but polished for ultralights. I have a surface pro from 2018, still works great, had a harder time with other distros. Good luck.

I had a managed switch from mikrotik, returned it. Skill issue. Its good, but the tplink that replaced it worked just as fine for the sameish price and one tenth the hassle.

Awesome, best of both worlds! Have fun!

No way! Really?

Here I was thinking that people were self-hosting their services on their 386 and passing outputs via carrier pigeon.

Omfg take my upvote, TAKE IT!

Yes, I have a surface pro5, I have been installing iterations of linux on this thing for the better part of 3 years now. Custom kernels, drivers, a pain, a real pain.

Until i came across aurora. Holy shit, I installed it and poof, all the efort of custom kernels, matching drivers just evaporated, I know I sound like one of those nuts that found a distro that he thinks is good, but I swear for the surface pro, this distro works excellently and I have tried ALL OF THEM.

Just know that you are saying goodbye to your cameras. Below I have linked the aurora ISO, the aurora install guide for surface and the linux-surface initiative, in case you strike out with aurora. Best of luck and if you have questions feel free to PM me.

https://dl.getaurora.dev/aurora-dx-hwe-latest.iso

https://docs.getaurora.dev/guides/surface-install-guide/

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

Mwahahhahaaaa!

I’m running aurora on a surface pro5 for ages, the thing works like a charm out of the box.

Hear hear!

What do you flipping mean, brick MY console for using it HOWEVER THE HELL I WANT?! After giving you MONEY for it?

What are we doing here? Am I leasing the device from you?

If buying isnt owning, piracy is not stealing. Get out of here with that shit.

I hope the modding community comes up with an answer for this and quickly.

I know they are giants, but I sincerely hope their bottom line will be affected, even though the odds of that are non-existent because we are servile, lazy asses.

Damn those litigious assholes.

Nope. Dont do it. Google yourself, search your email inbox, start doing it by hand. It will take months. Why not do it through a company? Here: https://youtu.be/iX3JT6q3AxA

Florisboard is also amazing. One of a very few that dont actually track what you type. The other one i know of with no tracking is anysoftkeyboard.

I’m sorry for being a dick, but without seeing what the ones and zeros are doing I’m just not touching it with a ten foot pole. Good luck to you.

Foss or gtfo. Im not letting a black box see my files. I dont care what you claim, I have been burned before.

Knoppix circa 2004-2005, It was in a cd that came from chip.de. I had no clue what linux was back then. I know even less now.

I wont reply point by point because others have already done a fantastic job at that.

Install virtualbox, get some linux images from mint, bazzite or what ever other distro you might want or was recomended and install them as VMs in windows.

Set up a list of things in 3 tiers:

• must have functionalities/workflows (crucial functionality)
• nice to have (important to have)
• optional (can live without)

Then in the installed VMs, test out this list, something like “can I change the volume per app, can I change the audio device per app” or what ever is important to you, according to your list.

This way you can test out if its for you or not, you wouldn’t even have to leave windows for it.

One thing regarding gaming, as I game quite a bit too - games with intrusive anticheats dont work, most of everything else works with steam proton. Check potondb.com for your games, you will see what works and what not.

No. Its ok. Its not that expensive a service. Plus I actually enjoy using it.

I would normally pull for something like this since I have no love for corps. But with the whole buy european thing, i’ll pay it forward with the extra paid for 6 months.

I just hope I won’t regret this decision, but so far so good.

I JUST paid for anew accout for a year …