MS Surface to Solus Q

jppelt

Team Solus, I am thinking of converting an MS Surface to Solus - an exorcism of sorts. Question: would the tablet and touch screen options remain? Can Solus operate on a hybrid system like a Surface?

WetGeek

jppelt would the tablet and touch screen options remain

I'd say there's a very good chance -- if you can install Solus on it -- that everything would work well. I have an Asus Travelmate laptop with a touch screen, and when I installed Solus on it, the touch screen didn't need anything special to make it work. It just did.

As Yuri pointed out, though, it depends on your architecture. It needs to be an x_86_64 system in order for Solus to install and work. I don't know anything about that computer, but if it's an ARM machine, you won't be able to install Solus on it. So give it a try! If it won't install you'll find out right away.

YuriTheHenrique

Specs? x86_64? ARM? depends... but you can try!

jppelt

@WetGeek @YuriTheHenrique Thanks! Not Arm...Intel i7 64 bit. I think I'll try it. I can do 100% of everything I need to do on Linux and what is smoother than Solus? Fingers crossed...a weekend project 🤣

brent

just as an addendum because I had nothing substantive to add:
1) I did a search yesterday in the upper right for "surface pro solus" and only found 2 articles. Both described obstacles.
2) I did a search yesterday for "tablet solus" and this search was far more fruitful.
This is me typing a lot of words just to say check out what other forum members went thru when they were in your shoes. It might make your weekend project easier🙂. 2 cents, good luck, make it happen!
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