• morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Pretending it’s not locked down like the og surface arm devices, I’d consider getting one and totally drop some flavour of linux on it, 3:2 is a great aspect ratio for laptops.

    Otherwise yeah, I wouldn’t go anywhere near it

    Edit: apparently I don’t need to pretend, this hasn’t been an issue for a while so that’s actually great

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      4 months ago

      They’re BIOS locked and only accept Windows keys. On the plus side. Tuxedo is developing Linux notebooks with the same powerful, low-power ARM chips.

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        Yeah, I assumed so, really dislike that you can’t do what you want with hardware you own.

        Edit: apparently not locked down, which is great

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          Their source is they made it the fuck up. The most recent devices from previous generations running Windows on ARM weren’t boot locked. Only the surface RT was boot locked.

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        4 months ago

        Where did you get this from? Their predecessors weren’t UEFI locked. Qualcomm themselves are working on mainline Linux support. Unless you have sources I am calling bullshit.

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        Wasn’t even thinking about that, I have an old surface rc2 that’s totally useless because MS abandoned it years ago and it’s locked down so you can’t install an alternate os on it. To be fair, I’m not sure how useful it could be but it’s really about the fact I can’t do what I want with hardware I own.

        Edit: apparently this (locked down) hasn’t been an issue for a while so that’s actually great

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          4 months ago

          All of them modern Windows for ARM devices released since Windows 10 have been boot unlocked to my knowledge, just with very poor driver support. Lookup Linaros articles on the subject.

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            4 months ago

            Totally out of the loop for sure, definitely basing my assumptions on my experience with the rc2, I’m actually really happy that’s changed

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              4 months ago

              Then why didn’t you say you’re out of the loop when writing the comments? You’ve just potentially misled a bunch of people for no good reason. These products are controversial enough as is without falsehoods being layered on top.

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                4 months ago

                I meant it to be implied with my comment tying back to the original surface rc devices, I’ve always really liked the look of the surface line, it’s why I bought one and used it heavily (I was also and windows phone and zune early adopter, other things that were actually really nice but got dropped), I personally disliked that I couldn’t really do much with it after they dropped support as afaik the rc2 no one has cracked and made that crack public.

                And totally willing to admit being wrong, going back and editing my comments to reflect my mistake

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                    4 months ago

                    Linux for sure, they weren’t the beefiest devices even for the time, wow someone finally got the rt2 unlocked fully? Appreciate the link, going to have to dig mine out.

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      If Framework didn’t exist and Linux worked on it, I’d probably get one when my older ThinkPad dies. I’d love something with a ton of battery life, and I don’t need much else (my workflow is basically a browser and a terminal).