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Afaik Debian doesn't support proprietary drivers out of the box.
Maybe you have a better experience with other distros as Fedora (or its daughter Nobara) or Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu but imo better).
EDIT: What are your spec? I'm sure the problems you're experiencing are related to your hardware and their drivers being closed source.
Debian 12 does, I think.
I don’t think so. I had to install intel iGPU firmware manually for Debian 12.
I did upgrade from 11 though. I don’t know if that would make a difference.
This is the result after 2 installs and days of tinkering.
No, I’ve only tried Debian. I’ve installed linux firmware packages and added non-free in sources. Also, installed surface firmware from github.
I spent 2 days making intel iGPU hardware acceleration working btw.
Are you willing to try another distro?
I just installed linux-surface and gnome 43. everything now works.
I got familiar with Debian and it's terminal commands so I think I might stick with Debian for now.