Hey everyone!

As described in the title, I have a Surface Go 1 happily running Fedora 39. The only downsides are that the cameras aren’t working and that my mouse (Modern Mobile from Microsoft) sometimes doesn’t connect or disconnects.

I don’t really care about the cameras, as I can use my phone for anything requiring it, but I get really irritated when my Surface Modern mouse doesn’t connect for a 30 seconds when I launch the OS and then connects after moving it a few times unsuccesfuly. Also, sometime without any reason or sometimes after 5 minutes of inactivity, it disconnects.

I’ve used the same mouse on my wife’s MacBook Pro running Fedora and I don’t remember having these problems.

I was looking at installing the Surface Kernel but I’m not so experienced I would be scared to damage my installation. I have a Clonezilla backup just in case but I’d want to avoid the useless hassle.

Has anyone experienced that issue and do you think the Surface Kernel could help?

    • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      +1 for Universal Blue. I installed the surface-image on a Surface Pro 5 and it worked ootb. At first, I installed Silverblue and then executed the install script for the kernel, but it broke the OS.

      Using the uBlue image was just plug and play and it worked instantly, without ever worrying it breaking.

      Yesterday, on my normal PC, somehow an installation was corrupted and I couldn’t even enter the rescue mode terminal. On another distro, this would have been a death sentence. Here, I just selected the image from the day before, booted into it and everything was like before.
      It isn’t like the snapper rollback from Suse, but more like many installations of the same OS.

      I would strongly consider following the advice with UniversalBlue, since the custom Surface kernel might break more often than you want, and on Fedora Atomic this isn’t an issue.