Surface pro 5 looking to put Linux on it
 

Microsoft Surface Pro 5 w/dock - Intel i7 – 16GB – 512GB
i would look to buy one of these.
does anyone have any advice for putting on Linux ?
witch os works with the touch screen ?
any help, advice or direction would be appreciated.

Pretty much any distro will work fine. openSUSE Tumbleweed works perfectly on the one I have, and others have reported Mint and Ubuntu also work. And you can also run a live distro from USB, to see if everything works.

thank you TB0ne
i tried googling it and never could find a clear answer. i was concerned if touch screen worked well .

I can only tell you that openSUSE Tumbleweed worked great for me. However, I do think it's important to note that the touch part worked fine...as in, tap to select/drag/open, but I did NOT test the stylus pressure gradient part. From what I understand, the Surface stylus has pressure gradients, so when you're doing digital art, you can 'push harder', to simulate more pressure on a brush/pen.

hi TB0ne

i installed openSUSE Tumbleweed latest, it was a little difficult with efi but i got it installed with help.
i have had no luck with the touch screen working, i know you can compile a kernel, and install repos.
i would like to get it working, but i afraid of messing the install up.
what did you do to get your surface working?


i did get crunchbangplusplus11 installed, and used the pre compiled kernel and added the repos. from :
https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

in crunchbangplusspluss11 all works fine.
the print is very small, and if you change the screen resolution with randr it throes the touch pin off.
i haven't found a way to calibrate the pin.