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Sadly it looks like it's not Linux friendly: https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/1djtfbj/testi...

Digression: It's amazing what people in the states can do, you buy the item, fiddle with it and then return it outright with no valid reason. This is beautiful.

Huh, I don't have any experience in other countries with this, but I guess I've never thought about how easy our return policies are. What's it like from your (or other's) part of the world?

You only return it if it's broken, otherwise you are stuck with it.

This isn't true for every product. I bought a laser printer recently from Brother. It can only be refunded if it's unopened, or if it is not working.

Since EL2 support is present in reference firmware, MS Surface could restore this functionality with a firmware update.

New, 1st gen hardware that doesn't ship with linux has poor linux support? Stop the presses.

The 11th generation surface pro is a 1st gen device?

The arm cpu is.

That was my first thought: "it's good that it's repairable but it runs windows 11 spyware, can we put linux on it?"

Windows has first-class support for Linux with Windows Subsystem for Linux. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

WSL2 and Docker seem to work already:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/1dkxtb8/wsl2_and_d...

WSL is not at all the same thing as Linux on hardware.

It’s Linux in a transparent VM. Now with X11 forwarding too so you can use GUI apps.

Sure it’s not the exact same thing but it’s also not “not at all the same thing” if your goal is to run Linux tools on your computer.

However, if your goal is to escape Microsoft's consumer-hostile shenanigans....

The question was whether it's "Linux friendly."

It is.

That's great but it's not Linux. Biking on public roads does not mean your bike is a car.

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