About Ubuntu on Surface Pro 4
I tried. Here is the thing, my Surface is i5 8G RAM / 256G, and I brought a 64G micro-SD card for extra space. So I try to install Ubuntu on my microSD card, that actually works but not good.
I ask for help from my friend to use his flash drive to install Ubuntu on my sd card, but it's not easy to let UEFI recognize it. Somehow I cannot enter GRUB even though I set it to the first place in boot order list, so we use rEFInd to enter GRUB so that I can enter Ubuntu. Luckily I can use Ubuntu now!
However it is not over yet.
We found that the keyboard cannot work at all, that means I cannot type my password and press enter. 😒 To solve this, we found a kernel, I think it's this. But problems just keep coming out, like screen brightness, this one is easy just add one line to set it to certain value you like in /etc/re.local. Another problem is touch screen is useless, the one cannot fix yet. What's more, the secure boot is disable so every time I start my surface there's always a warning on the top, this one in fact can be solved by assign a third party certification (I'm too tired to try this).
There is a new problem which become the reason I don't want to use it any more. That is every time I close surface, Ubuntu goes to sleep, when I open it again the keyboard cannot work any more. Then the one thing I can do is force shutting down it and turn on. I cannot save what I did just now, and I have to remember to shut down Ubuntu normally every time I wanna close surface and leave. If I forget sometimes, sorry, ☹ what I did will lost.
Now I still need Ubuntu to finish my assignments, so I'm using the old way, VM. 😔
I ask for help from my friend to use his flash drive to install Ubuntu on my sd card, but it's not easy to let UEFI recognize it. Somehow I cannot enter GRUB even though I set it to the first place in boot order list, so we use rEFInd to enter GRUB so that I can enter Ubuntu. Luckily I can use Ubuntu now!
However it is not over yet.
We found that the keyboard cannot work at all, that means I cannot type my password and press enter. 😒 To solve this, we found a kernel, I think it's this. But problems just keep coming out, like screen brightness, this one is easy just add one line to set it to certain value you like in /etc/re.local. Another problem is touch screen is useless, the one cannot fix yet. What's more, the secure boot is disable so every time I start my surface there's always a warning on the top, this one in fact can be solved by assign a third party certification (I'm too tired to try this).
There is a new problem which become the reason I don't want to use it any more. That is every time I close surface, Ubuntu goes to sleep, when I open it again the keyboard cannot work any more. Then the one thing I can do is force shutting down it and turn on. I cannot save what I did just now, and I have to remember to shut down Ubuntu normally every time I wanna close surface and leave. If I forget sometimes, sorry, ☹ what I did will lost.
Now I still need Ubuntu to finish my assignments, so I'm using the old way, VM. 😔
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