Hi,
I might need to give away my Surface Pro 7 soon, and I’m considering what laptop to buy next. For a MS laptop, the surface behaved rather well on linux. Well, if it wasn’t for the cameras, which never worked. I’m now wondering which laptop has good hardware support, that would be kinda like a surface, a 2-in-1 laptop. As in, detachable keyboard, that can operate in tablet mode and then once you attach the keyboard you have a full laptop. But with full Linux/cameras/everything support?
Does such thing exist? Thanks!
Minisforum V3
I bought it because it was the only one of the few 2-in-1 / convertibles that has the option to come with 32GB RAM and doesn’t have the on/off key in the corner of the normal keyboard, which I fucking hate. The price is also great, but especially so when you catch it at a discount. It is quite a high end device though.
I run arch on it and it runs well. Needed some manual fixes at the beginning which can be found at: https://github.com/mudkipme/awesome-minisforum-v3
Can confirm
I never heard of this one and it looks amazing (if a bit on the chunkier side). Do cameras work ok? Any hardware that doesn’t work ok Linux?
Both cameras work for me. Fingerprint sensor works.
You can click through the different probes here https://linux-hardware.org/?view=computers&type=tablet&vendor=Micro+Computer+(HK)+Tech+Limited to see exactly what works and what doesn’t on different distros at different times. At a quick glance it looks like mostly everything is working.
Great that’s awesome information! I’ll try to figure out the table but it looks really promising.
I recommend the website in general. It is very hard to parse tbh. but once you get used to it, it gives great info about parts and devices and the differences in kernel versions or even distros.
Seems to be sold out currently.
The SE variant is available on amazon.