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Cake day: September 12th, 2023

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  • From what I understand, the poor heat dispersal slowly fries the power management circuits.

    If you don’t do anything to taxing with it, it may be fine for a while. Ever since I installed EndeavourOS on it, it’s been running cooler - much less system overhead than Windows. Still, I know one day it’s bound to fail. :(


  • Any one EXCEPT the Surface Pro 4.

    The 4 is notorious for having lousy heat management and a faulty power circuit. The screen image shakes if it gets too hot.

    My own SP4 worked fine for years, but as it aged it started to succumb. I can’t use it for any real work anymore.

    Don’t get anything lower than the 5 (from 2017).











  • Quick follow-up, because tonight I installed EndeavourOS on my Surface Pro 4. (It’s not Garuda, but it’s still Arch.)

    If you can follow instructions and copy/paste Pacman commands, you can install the Surface kernel. I did hit a couple of unexpected errors along the way, but the error messages were very specific. So it was easy to resolve them.

    The instructions page is written very well, and there’s a whole section dedicated to Arch.

    There are only two things I haven’t done yet: set up secure boot, and enable Bluetooth. Both of those things are pretty well documented, I just haven’t tried to do it yet.