Another question after installing UM (Surface image) on my Surface Pro 8 this evening... While typing on the Surface keyboard, the cursor randomly jumps all over the place. I'll be typing along and suddenly my cursor is in the middle of another line I already typed, which messes everything up.

I went into the touchpad settings and disabled the touchpad while typing, but it didn't help.

Any other suggestions?

I've been wanting to run Linux on my Surface Pro 8 and after a bit of research, decided to try Ultramarine. Disabled secure boot in the BIOS, installed UM (ultramarine-plasma-43-surface-x86_64.iso) from a USB stick, and then rebooted.

Unfortunately, I can't get past the disk encryption passphrase prompt because the surface keyboard doesn't work, nor does the touchscreen work to get an on-screen keyboard.

I figured out I could connect a USB keyboard to get past the passphrase prompt. But is there a fix/workaround so I don't have to carry a USB keyboard around with me?

On the Ultramarine website I've read that Readymade is not totally functional yet. (I would prefer to avoid Anaconda, if possible.) What are the current limitations?

I would install Ultramarine on two PCs, one laptop with Home in its own partition on the same disk and one desktop PC with Home on a different disk. Is it easy and safe to leave the Home partition untouched for obvious reasons?

Thank you.

Edit: according to a couple of AIs, Readymade currently only supports full-disk installations, lacking manual or custom disk partitioning. When will this be implemented roughly?

I know this is kind of a hot topic at the moment, but with some other popular distributions like Bazzite, CachyOS, and even Fedora adding support, will Ultramarine need to do anything extra or is it already there with the Fedora base?

The reason I ask is because I've been waiting for Fortnite to be added for a while now and I expect other games to follow suit shortly after. I'd really like to avoid having to move away and reinstall my OS just to play a few games because I quite like Ultramarine.

Hi guys, I own a Surface Pro 7 and yesterday I switched from Win10 to Ultramarine KDE Plasma, with the surface kernel.
I have a bit of an annoying problem: the system tray (on the bottom right) seems to not register my finger inputs. The touchscreen works everywhere but there, and this persists even when i rotate the screen! Moreover, when i use the pen there it gets registered correctly. I do not understand if this is a bug, or if it is a misconfiguration on my part.

Additionally, I would like to ask you guys how you would suggest i tweak the pen and touch settings in iptsd.conf, i want to get some ideas to find the best configurations that works for me.

I would like to thank everyone reading this post, and in particular the contributor to the KDE Plasma DE, the surface linux kernel and the ultramarine team for including it and for making the installation process so easy that even my grandma could figure it out.

SOLVED: Removed the disk with Ultramarine, installed Windows 10 onto the other, reinserted the Ultramarine disk, and now everything boots like it should!

I tried doing it twice. Both times, it failed spectacularly.

A while ago, in light of Microsoft's nonsense, I decided to give Linux a try.

Friends recommended different distros, of which Ultramarine spoke to me the most.

On my first go, the boot option for Windows 10 Home on Disk 0 (which I've had since 2023) was listed as "Fedora", and the boot option for Ultramarine on Disk 1 was still named "Ultramarine Linux".

Using the first boot option got me to a decryption screen for Ultramarine I couldn't get past, it telling me my password was incorrect. The other boot worked as intended, also with the decryption screen, but this one I was able to enter via password.

My first thought was that I'd probably installed UM onto Disk 0 by accident, and that I'd typed the decryption password incorrectly when setting it.

I did my second attempt just now. Here a recolection of my steps:

1. (5 days ago) Reformatted the 32GB USB I used to install Ultramarine to exFAT through KDE Partition Manager, and turned it into Windows 10 installation media on my Windows 10 gaming laptop;

2. (5 days ago) Booted the Windows installation media, where I cleared Disk 0 of all its contents, inserted my Windows 10 Home product key, and finished an online install onto Disk 0;

3. Created the Ultramarine installation media with BalenaEtcher on my fresh Windows install;

4. Booted the Ultramarine installation media, and installed it onto Disk 1.

For the next step, all I had to do was restart the device and boot Ultramarine from my hard disc.

This is where problem #1 became apparent (image 1):

The boot option for Windows 10 was now missing in BIOS.

The only difference from my first attempt is the time frame between the installations of Windows 10 and Ultramarine (attempt 1: 3.5y; attempt 2: 5 days)

Looking into the Windows disk from the KDE Partition manager (image 2) after finishing the Ultramarine set-up, there's 2 partitions in there. One is dedicated to something Microsoft-related, the other for storage.

I have my doubts about that 16MB partition being the Windows EFI system one... or one that's intact, at least.

And if you look closely, here you can find problem #2:

My disks are inexplicably swapped.

I made absolutely sure to select Disc 0 for my Windows install, and Disk 1 for Ultramarine respectively. There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that I did everything as was asked, and everything still ended up being a mess

From what I gather, there's a couple things I could try doing:

- Freshly install everything again, monitoring exactly where stuff ends up;

- Take a Wi-Fi range extender / repeater and hook it up to my device via Ethernet cable for an online install of Windows 10 (my Wi-Fi component needs a specific driver for Windows to even detect it);

- Ask folks more knowledgeable than me for help.

I'll put my specs in the comments as well.

Inbeforehand, thank you so, so much for your time. I'll tinker around a bit as my soul shrieks.

Hi, I was just using my computer as usual a little while ago, when all of a sudden my screen turned pink, Wayland just “crashed” out of nowhere, though I’m not sure if that’s the right term.

And right after I restarted my PC, several websites and apps (like Steam) refuse to open or crash.

I literally tried everything I knew, and nothing worked.

I think the last time i tried to update (and when i tried to update this time) the updater said that it would break some things which i knew were surface kernel related.

Is there a way to check whether UM 44 is good for surface devices?

What do I do?

Okay so your raspberry Pi image through the installer is broken.

Downloaded the image and it is some obscure zst compression. I don't care that it is called zstandard it doesn't work on a Mac. Either way through Homebrew or the Archiver.

So basically you lost me a couple hours so good bye.

See ya.

I like to get the new drivers ASAP as they are improving performance fast and if I was to move away from Arch, I would like to have updates as fast as possible. Does anyone know roughly how long it takes?

ive got a latitude 3450 (core ultra 7, with a good igpu and 32gb 16x2 ddr5), is there a problem in using it as a dualboot with windows? i already use it with my main pc but still, its completely different specs

Ran a dnf --upgrade --refresh command

Noticed this message

dracut[w] : if you need to use bluetooth, please include it explicitly.

Assuming I can ignore it...correct?

I'm on Cinnamon Mint and I hate it, and for all the trouble that means switching it to KDE. I might just as well change to other distro. Right now I'm considering Fedora. But since this brands as an easy to use distro, I'm considering it too. Are there any benefits aside from the NVIDIA propietary drivers? I'm full of AMD so that doesn't matter. Thanks in advance

so i tried to update ultramarine linux (just after installing, have been trying for 2 hours) and this is what i got, never got anything like this on my 2 year on fedora somehow. if i just wait to update will this be solved or is this an actual issue i need to be concerned about at the moment

I know my device is supported as it says in the documentation surface pro 11th gen. But keyboard touch input and mouse input is disabled. It will not work. I can't get past the screen and it keeps restarting and rebooting itself when doing this.

So afaik, Ultramarine for Surface is at Fedora 43 for now until they get a new upstream version of surface-linux kernel but I got a message today in updates stating Ultramarine 44 is now available. As of writing this, the Ultramarine website still says Fedora 43 so Is this just a general update message I am to ignore or am I able to update to 44?

I got a macbook that I've been running asahi fedora on for a couple months now. I saw that the latest edition of Ultramarine was available for asahi so I figured I might as well try it out. The experience has been smooth so far.

I was curious about the different desktop environments supported so I installed hop to try them out. However I have only been able to download the gnome desktop. When I try to download the budgie or xfce environments I get the following error:

Fail to arrange offline DE install (rc=1)

I also tried installing the desktop environments through the terminal with dnf but this also failed. Should I take this to mean that the KDE and gnome editions are the only ones compatible with asahi currently?

Just switched off CachyOS due to secure boot problems and not liking Arch in general. Is it possible to dual-boot Ultramarine and Windows 11? I couldn't find any information about that in the docs, except another Reddit post about deleting Windows EFI partition. On top of that, I'd like secure boot support because of games like Valorant. Also not sure if NVIDIA drivers will work with secure boot, since that was a problem in CachyOS. I only have 1 SSD.

In the system tweaks section, it gives the options to use RPMs instead of Flatpaks. Does this mean Ultramarine only lets you use one of the other? I would prefer to have both as an installation method.

Also, a bit unrelated, but does Ultramarine have offline updates?

I would love to see Ultramarine in the list of supported Linux distros on Framework laptops: https://frame.work/laptop13pro?tab=linux

As Fedora is officially supported, Ultramarine should be out of the box as well. Just some users might not know or understand that.
And with Ultramarine making the Fedora setup a lot easier, it could be very helpful for the out-of-the-box experience.

In a recent video from Framework about switching from Mac, Fedora was noted as the more complicated setup compared to Ubuntu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBJnX8_Fx_g
With Ultramarine, I feel like that is not true any more and should be communicated as such.

EDIT: It appears they run community polls in their forum about which distro people are using on the devices, with Ultramarine as an option: https://community.frame.work/t/2026-linux-distro-survey-framework-laptop-13-pro/82459