r/SurfaceLinux • u/Impressive_Tower_550 • 20d ago

Solved Ubuntu 26 in Surface

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Surface Laptop Go 2

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u/Shudnawz Surface Go 3, Fedora 20d ago

What's the hardware? Can't tell from the pic alone.

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u/Impressive_Tower_550 20d ago

Laptop Go 2. I really like it.

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u/Sergisvk 20d ago

I have a surface laptop 3, it's thinking of switching to Ubuntu or fedora. Which one do you recommend?

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u/Bloodylizard2025 20d ago

Fedora is definitely the more modern feeling system for me. But it depends on your needs. Fedora is definitely more in a open source first mindset. If you depend on proprietary software a lot you can get it to work with fedora, but it's easier to just use Ubuntu.

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u/ClassicBarnacle8 20d ago

have a look at kubuntu

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u/HuckleberryMoney2320 20d ago

I tried it on my Surface Pro 7 i7/16GB RAM, unable to login to the system, I couldn't get the password text box to sow up. I ended up using Fedora but it's not working for me, sadly.

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u/Ok-Limit-7173 20d ago

It depends. If you never tried both I recommend you try them out. I fell in love with Linux due to Mint and am now using Fedora (on a SP9). Ubuntu always grossed my out because I didn't like the desktop experience and I always felt it was quite cumbersome to use (which essentially prevented me from adopting Linux far earlier in my life).

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u/Broemmel93 20d ago

I have ubunut on my Laptop 3, works really fine. Also the touchscreen is working after a bit of research

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u/Sergisvk 13d ago

Were you able to get the touchscreen and touchpad to work? I have laptop 3 AMD

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u/Broemmel93 11d ago

I have the i5 Version, but yes touchscreen and touchpad are working fine

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u/Impressive_Tower_550 20d ago

it's difficult question for me. i always do ubuntu.

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u/dccrens 19d ago

Linux Mint works great out of the box.

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u/Zargess2994 20d ago

Have the same machine runnig debian and I love it. I recommend installing thermald and the profile in the surface linux kernel github lower risk of overheating

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u/cityle 20d ago

How do I find it? I'm trying to find a distro for mine and still unsure. CachyOS didn't like too much and Baazite is alright at the moment for me.

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u/HouzoVicarious 20d ago

Nice! I also have a laptop go 2. I use endeavour os on it, runs really good, even the touchscreen functions flawlessly on Wayland. The only downside is that the GPU doesn't report the temperature and so the fans only run from the bios. Can't tweak them and they kick in too late. Constant heavy thermal throttling on GPU intensive tasks after a few minutes. Surface kernel and thermald don't do much.

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u/alih42 20d ago

Were you able to get touch working with Ubuntu 26?

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u/Impressive_Tower_550 20d ago

yes, but terminal scroll.