Autisti4

it has good or bad pen support

Sadly if you're making art and not a beginner, it's not enough it works, you need it to work flawlessly. If there's even the slightest lag or the connection cuts sometimes or whatever else, it becomes really hard to actually get anything done properly :(

But who needs 6 years of transition?

I'm hoping someone manages to make surface pro's fully compatible with linux in that time... (or that something that's compatible and serves SPs purpose becomes available)

Still not there for art, sadly. For example their pen has only half of the pressure sensitivity SPs better pens have :(

Sometimes linux is just not possible with the hardware :(

I tried my best, but neither my SP7's touch screen or pen functionality work properly with linux (even with the linux-surface-kernel). And there's still no good alternatives for SPs in the market either, for tablet+computer+works properly for art (at least any I could ever afford)

Yeah... :( I got this before win11 was a thing, but had there been other viable options for what I needed, I wouldn't have bought anything microsoft-made in the first place

Oh, I just have a surface pro 7. Since it's microslop-build, getting the touch screen and pen to work properly might be impossible, since I couldn't get it to be good enough even with the linux-surface-kernel, and have not really found any hope online. As my main use for the thing is art, rendering it useless just to get it on linux isn't exactly something I want... :(

I kinda gave up for now and switched to win10 since I don't enjoy distro hopping. I might just have to wait until the linux-surface-kernel evolves to be more compatible or I find some solid confirmation someone has managed to make the thing work perfectly with a distro...

I've tried :( just seems it's not possible

I'm trying :( but they don't work well enough on my stupid machine

Yeah... my machine got so slow and with every update breaking something new I had to "downgrade" to win10 (I'm aiming for linux, but no luck :( so far, at least). Now everything magically works again

I'm trying my best :(

I do have a cintiq as my main art station (wacom definitely is worth the money!), but sometimes I really need the portable one, and a separate computer + tablet doesn't really work for that... And also sadly the portable wacom tablet machine things themselves (movinkpad, I think) don't really cut it for other computer stuff either.

This is just i5, but I don't really do much stuff that requires anything better. As long as SAI 2 and some basic stuff runs, it's been enough for me. And yeah, the overheating really is a big issue if you try to do anything outside some very light usage. I do play minecraft with this sometimes, and that's about the upper limit this thing can handle... it does still work well enough though, even if after some hours coretemp shows the temperatures get a bit high.

I definitely would not recommend this thing without an added fan. Well, I honestly wouldn't really recommend any SPs with it either, unless you really need this specific combination of small/artsy enough/yet still computer.