Upgrades like a bigger, better display, an improved Type Cover and Surface Pen, and strong battery life in our tests make the Surface Pro 4 our Editors' Choice for high-end slate tablets. It's a significant improvement over the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 ($779.00 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) in just about every way. Microsoft is forging on with the fourth iteration regardless, building the Surface Pro 4 ($1,299 as tested) on the strongest points of its predecessors.

The Microsoft Surface line of tablets has been fairly divisive for every evangelist there are plenty of skeptics who doubt the device can truly replace a laptop. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.

How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.And once the drivers are installed, you'll have access to both front and rear cameras from any application that uses libcamera or gstreamer. Once installed, I could clone the libcamera git repository and build the camera drivers. That was because they had their own prerequisites, and so needed to be installed separately. I did find that not all the required packages installed as part of the provided apt command. SEE: How to create a Linux virtual machine with VirtualBox Again, there are instructions in the Linux Surface GitHub repository, along with commands that can be pasted into the terminal. That means having to compile experimental drivers as part of libcam. Unfortunately the 'almost' all means that out the box there's no support for its cameras. Linux runs well on the Surface Go it's quick and efficient, with good battery life and support for almost all your device's hardware. Install and use the familiar neofetch to get details of your system, checking that the kernel version includes the string 'surface'. You should now have a custom Linux kernel running in Ubuntu.

Checking to see that the Surface-optimized kernel has been installed using neofetch.

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