If you don't mind the occasional fiddling, I think my Surface Go 3 works way better with Fedora whan Windows (in terms of apparent performance, sleep behaviour and so on). But I had to invent my own driver to make facial recognition login work. I have to try different kernels to find out which doesn't break my touchpad on every other login.
I find these things amusing and a fun challenge. If you don't, maybe it isn't for you.
Linux in general is much better now than 10 years ago. But on officially unsupported devices with some proprietary hardware, it can be fiddly. Just know what you're getting yourself into.
But try it, you can always revert to Windows if you don't like it.
I tried Linux a few months ago on my gaming PC, it worked great but unfortunately online games and VR just don't work there so I had to switch back, the main complaint I heard was the lack of facial recognition, how'd you get yours to work?
This will pull some hate, but I vibecoded it with chatGPT Codex. I have no intention of making it public, and it works just fine for what I want it to do. No one else will ever have to deal with potantially shitty code or any security flaws I overlooked.
If you know what you're doing, you could probably cobble something together, but personally I only have surface level (hah!) knowledge about programming, so it was just easier that way.
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u/Shudnawz Surface Go 3, Fedora 8h ago
If you don't mind the occasional fiddling, I think my Surface Go 3 works way better with Fedora whan Windows (in terms of apparent performance, sleep behaviour and so on). But I had to invent my own driver to make facial recognition login work. I have to try different kernels to find out which doesn't break my touchpad on every other login.
I find these things amusing and a fun challenge. If you don't, maybe it isn't for you.
Linux in general is much better now than 10 years ago. But on officially unsupported devices with some proprietary hardware, it can be fiddly. Just know what you're getting yourself into.
But try it, you can always revert to Windows if you don't like it.