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Surface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've got a Surface Pro 5 with the dogshit m3 processor and 4GB of Ram, anyone have any concept of how it'd run under linux? It basically folds at any real task in Windows

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Incidentally, I had the exact same device. It actually worked pretty good to be honest!

Of course it will not magically be a top tier device. Programs will need some time to load the first time, and then be thrown out of RAM again.
BUT, compared to Windows, it will be a difference between night and day!

I strongly recommend you the silverblue-main-surface-image from universal-blue.org.

Why?

Because you need the linux-surface-kernel for it to work. Otherwise, most functions, like touchscreen, webcam, adaptive brightness, auto-rotate and more won't work at all.
You can install the kernel on other distros too, but it might break. I had that already happening. On uBlue, it's baked in and won't break. And if it does, you can just roll back.
It comes with Gnome by default and provides you a great touchscreen experience
And you can install Waydroid easily, which gives you access to Android apps.

I don't recommend using another DE than Gnome for that. Especially those "light weight" ones like XFCE are horrible for touchscreens, and if you use a browser, those few hundred MBs RAM less used by them is negotiable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the advice, I'd not heard of that particular distro. I'm quite comfortable with Fedora so I think I'll give it a shot

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It would be smooth as butter with a lightweight desktop (probably not KDE). I suggest Linux Mint XFCE edition

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"KDE is heavy" is so 2000s. It's been quite a while since KDE is very tight on resources usage. Unless you're running a raspberry or similar, there's no point on constraining yourself with one of those desktops for an everyday use device.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Everything's about perspective... maybe GNOME became SO bloated that KDE now seems very light. :P

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Look on phoronix for benchmarks. Plasma consumes less RAM and CPU than even XFCE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Hold on, I was kind of joking, I'm not saying KDE is slow. GNOME for sure is slow as hell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

All good, but I think it's really often a misconception that a DE like KDE, which is big and brings tons of features, must be more ressource intensive than a (feature wise) smaller DE. Which, as the benchmarks show, is surprisingly not the case.