A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4

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  1. wslg

    Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios

    As far as I know it only supports basic tapping/clicking for GUI applications and not multi-touch or gestures.

    https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/737

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  3. linux-surface

    Linux Kernel for Surface Devices

    old? 6.9.x as of today https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/releases

  4. WSL

    Issues found on WSL

    How's the peripherals support on Surface Linux?

    I've been wanting to switch to Linux on my Pro X SQ2 for a while due to the WSL2 support on it being terrible (might be fixed now [1]) but always thought that most stuff such as LTE, webcam and surface connector wouldn't work [2].

    [1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/11274#issuecomment-2...

  5. surface-pro-x

    Tracking and meta repository for Surface Pro X support.

    [2] https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x/issues/1#issu...

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