Windows purists would also argue that this is in fact the worst of both worlds. Linux purists would argue that this is in fact the worst of both worlds. That’s what this article is about – like you couldn’t guess. Can I Get The Best Of Both Windows And Linux then? Whether Windows Mail does for self-hosted e-mail is debateable, but it’s likely that users will have their data slurped, plus Windows itself sends a bunch of telemetry back to MS.

GMail obviously collects information for Google.

Unless you’re going to use Google Chrome for Linux it’s unlikely any data is going to get back to Microsoft or Google while you’re using Linux. Linux runs using Open Source software, and is inherently (generally) much better from a privacy standpoint. But my Mrs uses Affinity – and to be honest the Affinity GUI is just nicer. Yes, I know Inkscape and Gimp are available on Linux (and Windows) and they’re good. Windows only programs that I need such as Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer.The Linux-Surface crew are working hard on this though. Multitouch is a problem under Fedora because there’s no LTS kernel and the newer kernels are annoying because you can either have single-touch or pen, but not both and not multitouch.Suspend and resume is problematic, though getting better.They’re not likely to work either to be fair. Updated to reflect changes to SystemD-GenieĮDIT: – If you prefer KDE Plasma (and I highly recommend it, it works MUCH better on the Surface Pro 3) then have a look here – KDE Plasma on WSL 2 on Ubuntu 20.04 Problems with Linux on Surface Pro 4 To be fair, the linux-surface project has done a magnificent job getting Linux to run nicely on the Surface Pro 4 – but there’s a few things missing that are a bit annoying – and some of them are not likely to be resolved.ĮDIT: – Updated to include reference to Win-Kex from Kali. I’ve tried Ubuntu and Fedora 32 with varying levels of success. So, if you’ve looked at this website recently you’ll see that I like playing with Linux on my Surface Pro 4.

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