issue153:mon_opinion2
Différences
Ci-dessous, les différences entre deux révisions de la page.
Prochaine révision | Révision précédente | ||
issue153:mon_opinion2 [2020/02/01 17:30] – créée d52fr | issue153:mon_opinion2 [2020/02/03 18:10] (Version actuelle) – d52fr | ||
---|---|---|---|
Ligne 1: | Ligne 1: | ||
- | My name is Knightwise and I own a Surface Go. There, I said it. I’m part of the rather controversial club of people who forked over 600+ euro’s of cash on Microsoft' | + | **My name is Knightwise and I own a Surface Go. There, I said it. I’m part of the rather controversial club of people who forked over 600+ euro’s of cash on Microsoft' |
- | Me? I'm still on the fence. Having owned the device for over a year now, I have seen it go through cycles of daily heavy use, and weeks of neglect. Sometimes I’m in one camp, sometimes I seem to be in the other. A couple of weeks ago I decided on a different approach. Since I already own a pretty powerful Windows Machine (I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon as my daily driver), maybe I should take a look at running Linux on this little machine (the Surface Go) and see what happens. | + | Me? I'm still on the fence. Having owned the device for over a year now, I have seen it go through cycles of daily heavy use, and weeks of neglect. Sometimes I’m in one camp, sometimes I seem to be in the other. A couple of weeks ago I decided on a different approach. Since I already own a pretty powerful Windows Machine (I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon as my daily driver), maybe I should take a look at running Linux on this little machine (the Surface Go) and see what happens.** |
- | The hardware compatibility of the device allows you to run almost any Linux distro on this machine – out of the box. I say almost because there are a couple of things that aren’t working. Wifi is one of them and it’s important to know this before you “nuke and pave” your hard drive. The fix is easy, download some files and copy them over to some directory, and boom, bob is your uncle. But make sure to do it either before you install Linux or do it on a separate computer. The Surface Go has no classic “ethernet port”, so popping in a network cable is not that easy. | ||
- | Everything else just works or is provided by installing a custom kernel written by a great guy named Jake. I could lie and say it’s hard to do, but it’s not. Jake has written a simple script that you copy and paste into your terminal and boom: Screen rotation, stylus support and all the other goodies, but one, just work. | + | Linux sur un Go |
- | Hardware Support | + | Je m’appelle Knightwise et je suis propriétaire d’un Surface Go. Tant pis, je l’ai dit. Je fais partie du club plutôt controversé des gens accros qui ont sorti plus de 600 euros en liquide pour l’entrée de gamme sous-puissant de la Surface Line de Microsoft. C’est un dispositif qui est, soit aimé par certains pour sa versatilité, |
+ | |||
+ | Et moi ? Je reste toujours indécis. Étant propriétaire du dispositif depuis plus d’un an maintenant, | ||
+ | |||
+ | **The hardware compatibility of the device allows you to run almost any Linux distro on this machine – out of the box. I say almost because there are a couple of things that aren’t working. Wifi is one of them and it’s important to know this before you “nuke and pave” your hard drive. The fix is easy, download some files and copy them over to some directory, and boom, bob is your uncle. But make sure to do it either before you install Linux or do it on a separate computer. The Surface Go has no classic “ethernet port”, so popping in a network cable is not that easy. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Everything else just works or is provided by installing a custom kernel written by a great guy named Jake. I could lie and say it’s hard to do, but it’s not. Jake has written a simple script that you copy and paste into your terminal and boom: Screen rotation, stylus support and all the other goodies, but one, just work. ** | ||
+ | |||
+ | La compatibilité du matériel du dispositif vous permet de faire tourner presque toute distrib. Linux dès l’installation. Je dis presque, parce qu’il y a un ou deux trucs qui ne fonctionnent pas. Le WiFi en est un et c’est important de le savoir avant d’effacer le disque dur complètement. La réparation est facile : il suffit de télécharger quelques fichiers, de les copier vers un dossier précis quelconque et, ta-da, le tour est joué. Mais il faut s’assurer de le faire, soit avant d’installer Linux, soit sur un autre ordinateur. Puisque le Surface Go n’a pas de port Ethernet classique, ce n’est pas facile d’y brancher un câble réseau. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Tout le reste fonctionne tout simplement ou est fourni lors de l' | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Hardware Support | ||
The one thing that does not work yet are the webcams. And that is a darn shame because the webcam quality on the Surface Go is downright awesome. Seriously. The cam quality on this little laptop puts the one on my Macbook pro to shame at 1/3rd of the price. I know the programming geeks who reverse engineer the Linux drivers on this thing are probably recluse and shy, so a webcam is not as high on their list as it is on mine, but I would like to see this fixed pretty soon. | The one thing that does not work yet are the webcams. And that is a darn shame because the webcam quality on the Surface Go is downright awesome. Seriously. The cam quality on this little laptop puts the one on my Macbook pro to shame at 1/3rd of the price. I know the programming geeks who reverse engineer the Linux drivers on this thing are probably recluse and shy, so a webcam is not as high on their list as it is on mine, but I would like to see this fixed pretty soon. | ||
Ligne 13: | Ligne 24: | ||
Screen | Screen | ||
- | The only additional tweak I would recommend is setting the screen scaling to 150% (and you need a gnome command for that). It’s not that hard to find, but worth it since a 100% scaling makes the text on this full HD 10” display too tiny, while the 200% makes it too large. | + | The only additional tweak I would recommend is setting the screen scaling to 150% (and you need a gnome command for that). It’s not that hard to find, but worth it since a 100% scaling makes the text on this full HD 10” display too tiny, while the 200% makes it too large.** |
- | Performance on this baby under Linux is even better than under Windows. Some CPU heavy processes (like permanent file indexation) don’t run under Linux, so the device is pretty snappy. Battery life is not as optimal as under Windows, but still gives you a pretty fancy mobile Linux machine. There is the possibility to play around with suspend/ | + | Support du matériel |
- | I went for the Surface Go with the 8 GB of RAM and 128 gigs of hard-drive space. The linux distro does not eat up much space so there is plenty of room for your data. I went for the “minimal Ubuntu Install” and “picked and chose” my favorite mix of Command-Line and Gui Apps. Additional storage was added by jamming in a 128 gig micro SD card in the back and I have successfully doubled my storage capacity. | + | La seule chose qui ne fonctionne pas tout de suite, c'est la webcam. Et c’est vraiment dommage, car la qualité des webcams sur le Surface Go est franchement fantastique. Sérieusement. La qualité de la caméra sur ce petit portable fait honte à celle sur mon Macbook Pro et coûte un tiers du prix. Je sais que les geeks qui procèdent à une ingénierie inverse des pilotes Linux sur ce truc sont probablement des reclus timides et qu’une webcam n’est probablement pas placée aussi haute sur leur liste que sur la mienne, mais j’aimerais que ce petit problème soit corrigé rapidement. |
- | Ports are pretty scarce on this thing. One USB C port (and the well known ‘Surface’ connector) is about all you get. You can even charge the Go via USB and hook it up to an external USB C hub (or a dock). When jamming it into my USB-C HP Dock, I can get it to power one 25-inch display as a “second screen”, but powering 2 x 25-inch displays is a little beyond the capabilities of the Go. | + | L’écran |
- | The one thing that makes the GO pretty sweet is its size. It’s slightly larger than a regular iPad (and has a very unique form factor), but smaller than its 12-inch Surface Pro brothers. This is a very important factor for me when using it as a touch device. I flip the keyboard back and I have a light and comfortable device to read, watch videos, and scribble down some notes in Journal++ The weight and the balance of the device makes it a pretty cool ultraportable lappie. | + | Le seul ajustement supplémentaire que je recommanderais est de régler l’échelle de l’écran à 150 % |
- | I’m not a developer so I can’t say anything about compiling speeds and such, but I DO work in the “corporate world’ as an IT consultant. I am pretty sure that if they fixed the webcams I would have a sweet machine to survive out there. I can run an entire Office365 environment in my browser, Install the Citrix Client, and no-one of my suit-and-tie-wearing friends would be any the wiser that my Go is actually dancing with the Penguin. (I don’t wear a suit and tie by the way :p ). | + | **Performance on this baby under Linux is even better than under Windows. Some CPU heavy processes (like permanent file indexation) don’t run under Linux, so the device is pretty snappy. Battery life is not as optimal as under Windows, but still gives you a pretty fancy mobile Linux machine. There is the possibility to play around with suspend/ |
+ | |||
+ | I went for the Surface Go with the 8 GB of RAM and 128 gigs of hard-drive space. The linux distro does not eat up much space so there is plenty of room for your data. I went for the “minimal Ubuntu Install” and “picked and chose” my favorite mix of Command-Line and Gui Apps. Additional storage was added by jamming in a 128 gig micro SD card in the back and I have successfully doubled my storage capacity.** | ||
+ | |||
+ | Sur cette petite machine sous Linux, les performances sont encore meilleures que celles sous Windows. Certains processus lourds du processeur (comme l’indexation permanente des fichiers) ne tournent pas sous Linux, ce qui fait que le dispositif est très rapide. La durée de vie de la batterie n’est pas aussi optimale que sous Windows, mais vous donne quand même une machine Linux mobile d’une grande sophistication. Il est possible de jouer avec suspendre/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | J’ai choisi le Surface Go avec 8 Go de RAM et 128 Go d’espace disque. La distrib. Linux ne prend pas beaucoup de place et il y en a donc beaucoup pour vos données. J’ai sélectionné l’installation minimale d’Ubuntu, puis j’ai choisi un mélange de mes applis préférées en ligne de commande et en interface graphique. J’ai ajouté du stockage supplémentaire en installant une carte micro SD de 128 Go derrière, réussissant ainsi à doubler sa capacité. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Ports are pretty scarce on this thing. One USB C port (and the well known ‘Surface’ connector) is about all you get. You can even charge the Go via USB and hook it up to an external USB C hub (or a dock). When jamming it into my USB-C HP Dock, I can get it to power one 25-inch display as a “second screen”, but powering 2 x 25-inch displays is a little beyond the capabilities of the Go. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The one thing that makes the GO pretty sweet is its size. It’s slightly larger than a regular iPad (and has a very unique form factor), but smaller than its 12-inch Surface Pro brothers. This is a very important factor for me when using it as a touch device. I flip the keyboard back and I have a light and comfortable device to read, watch videos, and scribble down some notes in Journal++ The weight and the balance of the device makes it a pretty cool ultraportable lappie. ** | ||
+ | |||
+ | Les ports sont assez rares sur cette machine : | ||
+ | |||
+ | La chose qui rend le Go très agréable, c’est sa taille. Il est légèrement plus grand qu’un iPad normal (et sa forme est unique), mais plus petit que ses frères Surface Pro de 12 pouces. Ce facteur est très important pour moi quand je l’utilise en tant que dispositif tactile. Quand je bascule le clavier sur l’arrière, | ||
+ | |||
+ | **I’m not a developer so I can’t say anything about compiling speeds and such, but I DO work in the “corporate world’ as an IT consultant. I am pretty sure that if they fixed the webcams I would have a sweet machine to survive out there. I can run an entire Office365 environment in my browser, Install the Citrix Client, and no-one of my suit-and-tie-wearing friends would be any the wiser that my Go is actually dancing with the Penguin. (I don’t wear a suit and tie by the way :p ). | ||
In the end, I mostly use my Surface Go (under Linux) as my little “drag along” Linux laptop. Gnome 3 is not a bad OS for touch-enabled devices, but I do tend to use the keyboard and mouse most of the time. Linux on the Surface Go surely turns the little tablet/ | In the end, I mostly use my Surface Go (under Linux) as my little “drag along” Linux laptop. Gnome 3 is not a bad OS for touch-enabled devices, but I do tend to use the keyboard and mouse most of the time. Linux on the Surface Go surely turns the little tablet/ | ||
Ligne 32: | Ligne 59: | ||
The SurfaceLinux Subreddit: https:// | The SurfaceLinux Subreddit: https:// | ||
- | Jakeday’s Kernel page https:// | + | Jakeday’s Kernel page https:// |
+ | |||
+ | N’étant pas développeur, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Finalement, j' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Liens : | ||
+ | | ||
+ | | ||
issue153/mon_opinion2.txt · Dernière modification : 2020/02/03 18:10 de d52fr