Hi Came to this forum for info. I'm new have Micro Surface Pro 3 and looking for linux
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Hi Came to this forum for info. I'm new have Micro Surface Pro 3 and looking for linux
Hi,
Recently, a friend recommended that I come here for information as he wasn't sure. I just bought a MicroSoft Surface Pro 3 with 8 gigs Ram 64 gigs ROM on board. It comes installed with a special windows 8.1 that sucks big time with web browsers ie mostly and nothing to speak of else. A friend suggested I look into running some form of linux on it, but I have no experience. Can anyone point me to reliable information thanks
Then a quick web search turns up some info on getting linux onto the device. Before doing something like this - be sure to search for videos and success stories as well as failures. Look for your exact model and make etc etc as some hardware can change between same versions and not be supported in the linux world.
Thank you for the help. Please note that the ie that is on a surface pro is ONLY an app, it is not the full blown crummy program. It is worse! I recently downloaded from the app store an off market browser app which works somewhat better, but I still couldn't do a lot with it on the modern day web. Another friend said I could crack my surface to force it to do more, but I don't know about this either. Thanks for all your help.
Rick (freegold)
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Originally Posted by szboardstretcher
Have to be careful where you go from here on the MS3. Here is some info about dual booting and the warranty.
Then a quick web search turns up some info on getting linux onto the device. Before doing something like this - be sure to search for videos and success stories as well as failures. Look for your exact model and make etc etc as some hardware can change between same versions and not be supported in the linux world.
Hi and welcome. VirtualBox would allow you to try Linux, without disturbing MsWin at all.
I find it to be easy/simple, safe, and thus fun (for me). OSboxes has pre-installed Linux distro .vdi s, which would mostly skip 'installing' .iso
A detailed Tutorial I found: http://www.davidwalling.com/ubuntu_002_xenial.pdf
Picking good web-search keywords helps in researching topics; I add: wiki (WikiPedia).
Best wishes; ENJOY your Linux journey. Looking forward to hearing how it goes.
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