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All of these screenshots are taken using touchscreen mode only. I also have plasma mobile running on it. I'll post pictures of that soon. librewolf Librewolf browser with Bonjourr.fr home page. (Used CSS to customize layout for mobile. ) spotify Stock Spotify for Linux. newsflash Newsflash rss reader.

All in all it wasn't a terrible experience getting it all set up. Def worth the time.

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[–] syaochan@feddit.it 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

My surface is at 84%battery life so it's not great to start, but I can get 3.5-4 hours out of it.

[–] xelar@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I might have access to Surface, so I will Dave it for future referencje. By the way what distros work well with Surface?

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm using fedora KDE with the surface-kernel I know that Nobara Linux works as well. I believe cachyOS works, as well as a couple others.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I installed ublue Aurora, an immutable distro that comes with an optional surface kernel as well. Rally like it so far.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

i was lookin into it and they dropped support for surface recently. : (

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

In used that on my Chromebook once! It worked alright but it would have been better on a more powerful machine.

[–] greylinux1@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What weather and date widget is that on the desktop ?

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Yessir indeed it is.

[–] sp3ctre@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

feeling good on a wednesday

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the little cat thing?

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's called catwalk enhanced it's a widget that measures how hard my cpu is working. (The faster it runs the hotter the cpu)

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks! I already love it for the taskbar icon alone lol

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

It's a pretty good experience, but I will say that KDE's stylus calibration leaves much to be desired. Windows lets you add as many calibration points as you desire through a comment. KDE on Wayland doesn't support non linear calibration yet.