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Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 (www.neowin.net)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Until they make a proper upgrade to my surface 10, I will have no other choice but to stay on the windows 10 version.

[–] Sturgist 11 points 1 week ago (9 children)

clears throat

Surface Linux Kernel. Surface 10 supported.

Some distros of Linux that have SLK rolled in:

Nobara:

Based on fedora
Made by GloriousEggroll who also is responsible for protonGE a great derivative of the Steam Proton compatibility layer for playing windows games on Linux
Development and maintaining it is done by a single dude, so if something happens to him, that's the project done, this is not in the Pros section.

BlissOS:

for when you really just want your surface device to be running Android
immutable distro, makes it easier to undo fuck ups, and often prevents them happening at all
seems fairly mature and robust, I don't know for a fact as I haven't used it

Gentoo Surface:

for when you want to put a bit more effort in
the instructions here are from building Gentoo locally using and Arch LiveISO
FOR WHEN YOU WANT TO PUT MORE EFFORT IN

These were the really easy to find options. There's absolutely going to be more that have SLK rolled in...but that's not actually necessary, as the SLK git has easy to follow instructions on rolling it into whatever distro might interest you. The whole Linux universe is your oyster.

I have a Surface Pro 4, and I run Nobara, works great, better than windows. There are some hardware things that don't 100% work on some surface devices. Here is the Supported device list and Features Matrix. Looks like the SP10 doesn't like to hibernate, and doesn't have working cameras atm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Big thanks for this. Been thinking about what to do with my daughter's Surface Book once Win10 is EOL and it looks like Nobara will be the first and hopefully final stop.

[–] Sturgist 2 points 1 week ago

No worries bud! It really makes me angry what M$ is doing here, obviously they're not alone in being a cause of our eWaste "addiction"...but this is really a situation that should be opening people's eyes. Apple is bad for it too. Their laptops have a fairly short lifecycle, and unless you want/can to put Linux on your MacBook whatever, it's no longer secure after usually about 5 years. Intentionally driving the disposable culture, buy, use briefly, replace for arguably too much, repeat.

Have her try Nobara for a week, but tell her it's hardly the only option! With how easy it is to include SLK into (almost?) any distro, I really wasn't kidding when I said the Linux Universe is your oyster! Hell, you could compile your own distro if you're a masochist!

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