I found this handy guide which was very helpful for me in getting the Surface Pro 3 running well with Ubuntu 15.04 -- I still have to recompile the kernel, but many issues mentioned in this article have since been resolved.
Nice work and thanks to mr David Elner! I did things a little differently since my situation was a little different, but I plan on doing a full writeup at teksyndicate.com. If you have any problems or questions, please ask in the forum at forum.teksyndicate.com
@Wendell you may wanna check out the Jolla tablet. It's pretty sleek in terms of specs. It has a 64 but Atom quad core, 2gb of RAM, up to 64gb of storage, and they're marked down $50 from what they will be on release.
Had Jolla Phone, can not recommend Jolla products. You pay a lot and get 100$ worth of a product, same with Jolla tablet. Chuwi V8 has Atom, 2GB RAM and, I think, 32GB of flash. It costs 100$ shipped. Hp Slate 8 is similar.
And OS, while idea of UI is good, is bad. There are no good apps and android app run really slow, if at all. It's bad.
@Kat I watched the first 10 minutes of this video just sitting here sponging information until I realized I don't have a surface 3.
Completely nonconstructive comment: No, that pun terahertz, and it's not a laptop, it's not a tablet, it's a tabtop. Or a laplet. Or a flaptop. A flipflop. I'm going with flipflop. Also this video seems a bit old, I saw Zippy Parmesian's old avatar.
As it happens I have just messed up my Macbook at work today by doing some stupid things to grub and mbr and now I need to reinstall anyways. I actually wanted to fix this system a long time ago, so that's really just the final reason to do it now.
So I was wandering, if it is possible to do a multi boot, just like in the video, but with Windows 8.1, Mac OS X and Ubuntu all running on a 2014 Macbook Pro. I know it sounds kinda stupid to use all 3 os, but I figured it would be kinda nice to have this thing to rule them all. Would this be possible? Like recompiling the kernel to MacBook hardware needs in Ubuntu and also have OS X and Windows in a "boot camp hardware compatibility" kind of way?
Yes, this video was awesome but broke my mind as well. Hence I love it. Information like this is awesome for a computer programming noob like me. Rock on wendell!
Linux 4.* has has some significant improvements to laptop component drivers like touch-pads, video drivers, etc, i noticed this includes some surface pro updates.
Have you had a chance to try the latest kernel (e.g. 4.0.6/4.1?) yet to see if it still needs manual patching?
Wendel, This is a great vid, thanks for making this.
I've been searching for a OneNote alternative for Linux since 2010, after my first dual-boot setup on my Lenovo x61. It was one of the laptops that you could spin the screen around, fold it back down, and convert it to a tablet. Man That was the bomb.
Anyway, I haven't been able to find a good alternative. There's tons of programs out there that do one or two things that OneNote does, but nothing touches OneNote's feature set. Nothing has Hand drawings, Handwriting to Text, full spreadsheet functions, image editing, and that nice Journal and Page sorting that OneNote has. Not to mention advanced functionalities like collaborative editing (yup, they had it before Google Drive).
It really bums me out, too. Please announce it as loud as you can if you find something that comes close to OneNote.
Good start but i would try to move slowly away from using the wine emulator............ok its not an emulator, shut up trolls i know.
Itunes is ok if you have a large investment in the itunes store or you have a recent ipod (i feel sorry for you son) but if your just using it for 'it what i know' try clementine, its pretty good.
Microsoft Office some people have to use it for pivot tables or in house macro support but other then that have a look at libre-office, or Abiword if you just need a thing to write school papers/reports. if you need more powerful DTP Scribus could be for you.
Its ike photoshop/premiere if you need it and only it then you know it othher then that you're adding a layer of insablity and crazziness you dont need. in that case dual boot.
Im not ranting at you but ive used linux since 2001 and ive fallen down every hole you are about to XD
I'm joking about with most of it. You think I installed IE for anything other than taking this screenshot?
Skype and Office I use. iTunes if the Store worked maybe I'd download a few things from it but I was just playing about with it. LibreOffice and Abiword are fine sure but Office works better for me.
