surface-uefi-firmware VS wubiuefi

I downgrade using the script and fwupdmgr. Here's the tutorial and the script files

(Thank you @StollD ) And used the script from here to extract the .cab files from SurfaceBook2_Win11_22000_23.060.1495.0.msi installer.

Follow this to install/update Firmware on Linux: https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-uefi-firmware

There is this project https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-uefi-firmware to install and update surface device firmware on linux!

I couldn't get fwupd to automagically update my Surface Go 3's firmware, so instead I found this repo: https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-uefi-firmware and followed the instructions there to update all my firmware manually. I installed the UEFI firmware update first, then just went down the list in alphabetical order. A couple firmware files didn't install due to Linux not recognizing the devices they pertained to, but most of them seemed to install just fine. I installed them one at a time, with a reboot between each one, so it took about 10-15 minutes total. I'm sure there's a way I could've installed all of the firmware files in one go, but I wanted to be explicit to ensure that all of them got installed properly.

I've seen this (https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-uefi-firmware) repo which could be really helpful but I'm still a bit scared.

UEFI Firmware updates for linux-surface - Available here. (This is the tool that will let you force the downgrade of UEFI Firmware. It needs to be done in a linux environment, and we are using Ubuntu)

I just tried extracting the latest driver pack on an ubuntu live USB and there were no errors for my device, but I don't really understand the instructions from the github link.

Now use the script provided by surface-uefi-firmware to generate the firmware update package

It has a fork for UEFI systems but it's also not updated anymore https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi Though it still works more or less

wubi was also awesome letting install and use Ubuntu as a single file on your Windows drive

There is a modern fork which more or less works https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi

Looks like someone already did! https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi/releases

Went down a rabbit hole clicking that link and discovered a modern fork of it that still works today! https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi

Link: https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi

I wish Ubuntu didn't kill Wubi tho. We used that at my first workplace on laptops with Windows and it was so damn good. There is a new fork [0] but it's a hit and miss with modern UEFI and especially with Windows 11 (had to use it for some reason). And other distros never had an option like this afaik, none does as of today. But I know it's all about Docker, VMs, or WSL nowadays yet Wubi covered a niche segment which was pefect.

0, https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi

Wubi. It creates an iso inside your partition and you can delete it without any hassle. It's a little slower than running on bare metal though.

If you have Windows installed, you can try WubiUEFI (if you have a UEFI system). It installs like any other windows app and can be removed if needed. https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi/releases/tag/20044r344

Yeah ther's a new version of it https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi .