How to Install Linux on a Microsoft Surface (Ubuntu 22.04 Linux Surface Kernel)

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• Thank you for watching! What I have found after using this:
  Pros:
  Battery Life has been increased by a lot (especially in power saving mode)
  Increase of speed (a lot)
  Does not take long to boot
  Linux <3
  Pen does work
  Camera does work
  Touchscreen works (Bloons TD 6 tested lol)
  If you are coding it works super well.

  Cons:
  The boot sequence is tedious I have yet to find out how to not select the kernal each time the computer is booted. (kind of annoying)

  Other than that I recommend if you are contemplating on switching do it. I bough this surface back in 2018, and after installing Linux it has brought it back to speed.

• Great video! Installed Ubuntu on my surface pro 7.. there is a problem with the display resolution.. it says 2736×1824 in the display settings but there is a gap horizontally on both sides.. any ideas how to fix this?

• Partition scheme is MBR or GPT ? thanks in advance

• Install the secure boot MOK, then reboot (without updating Grub?), cause my Surface Pro 5 doesnt reboot again… I get the microsoft logo… I managed to get around that by NOT installing the secure boot, then it DOES reboot, I'd like secure boot if I can get it, but part of me now things "Its working, screw secure boot"

• Almost no substantial additions to the process on your part. But still a nice little walk-through, to see the process once.

• will it work in surface 2 ?

• Thank you for sharing! Very useful info!

• Great video, so simple, I got my Surface Pro 4 128GB up and running Ubuntu with wifi touchscreen ….. Just great and straightforward

• Anyway to run linux on ARM SPX SQ2?

• can u do mintos on surface??

• @BradleyDAllen My comment disappeared about kernel version 6.5.6 on my surface pro 7. On your name -a info I see you do not have surface pro 7.I wanted to add that I installed ubuntu myself somehow 2 years ago as I informed in my video https://youtu.be/RhvEco-VpkE?si=K6Q1oQk_q0TVAZ5i
  What kind of surface pro do you used here and did you get the camera working?
  Thank you.

• Who maintains the kernel ? Is it an official release for ubuntu? Also were you able to use the surface pen with some apps?

• Is this Surface Pro 4 in your video ?

• Is installing that Surface kernel even necessary? For example, I could care less about touchscreen on my Surface Laptop 5. Am I not able to just run with the stock Ubuntu kernel?

• I got stuck after the kernel update and did not get prompted to insert the surface password.
  And did not manage to make it boot again so i ended upp rolling back to Windows 🙁

  Will try again when there is a nativ client for GeforceNow for LInux 🙂

• does installing ubuntu prevent the flickering ??

• I first installed Ubuntu correctely but failed installing the linux kernel. Then I installed windows again on my surface but now I can´t even install the ubuntu. It just get stucked at a black screen with the windows logo. Anyone knows how to get rid of this bug? Thanks, great video

• Good guide

• I have just installed Fedora 38 on Surface pro 4. Although I have not tested everything, so far it works. Thanks for the video!

• Nice Video. Thank you lot. Someone knows if you need the Keyboard for the installation? My Surface 4 Pro do not recognize a Typecover anymore (tested with a working one…).

• Kinda run to a problem. My surface pro 9 doesn’t reboot at all. Wether on windows or Linux. Even after trying different boot configurations . What went wrong and how to fix this ????

• No matter what I do, I cant get the imaged USB to launch after setting the USB option. Always comes up saying there's no bootable device and then throws me back into the UEFI menu.

• Thanks for this helpful video! very important, simple and easy to understand, +1 subscriber!

• Does this work on a surface rt ARM? Thanks

• Very helpful thanks Bradley. Lookin' handsome in the reflection.

• Is it still Dual Boot even though I have Ubuntu, can I still switch to Windows 11 when I need to?

• Hi Bradley,

  First of all, thank you for this outstanding work.

  I thoroughly followed all your explanations and tried again and again but I always got the same error right after the final reboot :
  "error : bad shim signature.
  error : you need to load the kernel first.
  Press any key to continue …"
  Please, let me know what is going wrong.

  Best Regards …
  Christian Aussourd

• Will all of this work with Linux Mint?

• I want to buy surface pro 7
  I5 1035g4 8/128
  I'm a pentester and im not sure if the cpu can handle this:
  Multi Tabs in firefox
  Burpsuite
  Brute force…?

• Is I think correctly, that after this trick I'll have two OS linux and Windows?

• They still haven't gotten the surface pen to work properly like it does on windows just yet.

• can I install Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS 64bit on my surface rt 32bit

• Does this work on Microsoft Surface RT with ARM CPU?
  Thanks

• Work on surface rt?

• わかりやすい動画でした。
  ありがとう!!ﾟ+｡:.ﾟ(*ﾟOﾟ *)ﾟ.:｡+ﾟ

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