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This is the way, you can pick up a Surface Pro 6 for under £250 here on eBay, i7 and 16GB

Initially thought this was about the Proton Foundation product before I realised which community I was in

Do note that you should also check that you initiate the recall from the Anker site matching your location

A lot of great points here, I would be on aboard if phones therefore had two USB-C ports as standard

🥹 it’s so clean and beautiful

It’s a good topic to raise, laptop battery life is definitely still a weak point on Linux. I’m not sure there’s any distro specifically geared towards extending battery life, but maybe choosing one with a light desktop environment would help? I’m no expert myself but it also depends on the device you’re using and it’s platform.

For example, one common power management tool tlp https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html is not recommended by AMD or Framework for my FW13. There are steps you can take, like ensuring your browser is using the GPU/iGPU for videos/hardware acceleration is enabled and working, but Linux as a whole does not seem to have prioritised improving battery life. It’s understandable to a degree, with it being dependent on so many factors

Assume you mean the 13, I’ve had mine for a few months and love it too. Also really dig the refinements they’ve done with the 12 like the pogo pins and even more easily replaceable display

It was barely tolerable, then they gated proper noise cancellation behind some AI privacy destroying BS. Excellent choice, fu Microsoft

Just co-signing this, not just for things like gamepads (understandably a focus) but even things like thunderbolt docks, eGPU enclosures and more.

Those two are high up in my mind as I recently moved to a laptop based setup in my office but would love more graphical power when needed. As it is, I’m having issues with the mouse and keyboard attached to my WD19TB Dell dock only working occasionally. Getting into the detail of updating it with fwupdmgr now

Dear gods, the comments in the linked Hacker News thread too. Was happy enough to avoid Ubuntu for snaps, now I’m even more relieved

Great news, been too long since this was a thing

A lot of this could be achieved by turning off notifications/muting them, turning off fitness tracking, deleting social media accounts, etc whilst retaining the device.

Still got my Powercolor HD4870 somewhere, from the first PC I built/bought for myself

Bizarre, I wouldn’t expect issues with Linux on that hardware config. Perhaps try something with newer packages, I have a pretty similar setup like yours except for the CPU (7800X3D) with no issues on EndeavourOS. Fwiw, I have the Powercolor Reaper 9070XT which runs hot and loud out of the box but is pretty good now with a slight undervolt and tweaked fan curve

You don’t necessarily need Big Picture mode like on the Steam Deck, in fact i think your current Nvidia card might have issues with it https://docs.bazzite.gg/Handheld_and_HTPC_edition/Steam_Gaming_Mode/ You could use another distro like Fedora, install Steam and just set it to launch in Big Picture mode

How nice of Google to highlight another Drive/One competitor to me.

Any reviews/feedback from current Nextcloud users? I do plan to eventually self host but would start off using storage included in the plan

Edit: many thanks for all the responses! I think I’ll stick with my current Drive alternative for now (Mega) but will start reading up on the technical docs/requirements for Nextcloud, as I do want to self serve in the long run

Getting a surface pro 8 soon, looking forward to getting Linux on it!

Edit: installed Pop OS on my SP8, had to switch to Wayland and also needed to do some tweaks to get the keyboard to work to decrypt but it’s running well so far. I believe you can get the camera working with the proprietary camera stack but it’s not a priority for me right now