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You were not rude. They were rude if they refused to accept your request.

You can find a used Surface Pro with keyboard cover in your price range. It's a little heavier than your typical Android tablet, but with the Linux-Surface kernel it seems to run pretty well.

Ask me tomorrow after I'm done with your mom

American

Motherfucker. You just had to go and ask.

Your leather wallet desperately needs a cleaning and conditioning, I can see the small beginnings of leather suedeing/thread fraying.

You add the new kernel's repository to your repo list. During updates, Pacman will pull what it needs from the various repos.

That's the short-short version. Possibly not technically accurate, but that's basically what it does.

After I ran the setup commands, edited the config file, then ran the command to install + update, it updated without me having to manually select any files.

Yeah, I'm sure Bluetooth is just from something I missed. Some config I need to update, or something.

Touchscreen and pen both work perfectly with the new kernel.

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.

Either way, as long as it's painted in stripes. It has to be stripes, right?

I hear blue is the fastest