surface-pro-x

The sad part about all of this is that generally the contributions for these kind of things do not come from the vendor, 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 (@andersson, Linaro). All of the hard work is done by them, instead of Qualcomm / Microsoft. The same applies for the rest of the ARM ecosystem :( Another great example is Asahi Linux: the port was only possible because someone decided to reverse engineer the work of Apple - not because Apple wanted it.

fyi https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x/issues/43

It looks like there's been some good progress on getting Linux running natively on the Windows Dev Kit 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

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 (: