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Tracking and meta repository for Surface Pro X support.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2023-04-10 · latest 2026-06-01

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  1. …is pretty strong. Proprietary Microsoft drivers don't make it easy, but we're getting there... https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x I'll buy another one if there's some commitment from Microsoft to be more open source friendly,…
  2. Surface Pro X here, the support is meh (see https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x/issues/7 ) but good enough to use it casually as a second computer. In my case the biggest drawback is not being able to use an external screen via…
  3. …wouldn't work [2]. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/11274#issuecomment-2... [2] https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x/issues/1#issu...
    comment by maxboone · 2024-07-16 · in A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4
  4. …to be a long way off [2]. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/17tw6ag/anyo... [2]: https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x/issues/7
    comment by seabrookmx · 2024-02-17 · in Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1
  5. …but from "volunteers". See for example the kernel patches done to support the Surface Pro X: https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x Half of them are from Maximilian Luz (@qzed, student), the other half are from Bjorn Andersson…
  6. fyi https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x/issues/43
  7. https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x
  8. …2023 hardware[0]. There was a previous discussion here about this hardware back in 2022-11[1]. [0]: https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x/issues/43 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33418044
  9. The Microsoft Surface Pro X has a good Linux support now, and it's arm64 too: https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x Of course audio is not (yet) working (: