Support for Microsoft Surface devices

codewizard1975

I know it's been asked in the past and I've read the very few threads about the subject.

Has anyone on the Solus Dev team thought about adding the Linux Surface patches into the mainline kernel builds to help support these devices? It would allow support for the touch, pen, and even some integrated webcam support.

My testing so far on a Surface Pro 7 has shown Solus to work fast and without issues like other distributions have experienced.

ReillyBrogan

Do you have a list of such patches?

Mascaret

ReillyBrogan
I use PopOs on a Surface pro 6 with this: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface.
The patches are listed there.

codewizard1975

I prefer to use Solus as its better optimized and prone to less issues since the GNOME edition is clean and up-to-date. If the support for touch was working fully, more people may come to use Solus on their Surface Tablets and Laptops.

I have used other distros in the past, but always had one error or another that pushed me away.

Hopefully the patches get merged into the Solus kernel builds.