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Surface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by BlovedMadman to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Go to https://universal-blue.org/installation/ and download the image. It's a net-installer, so you can use a small USB stick too. Then just install it the way you would any other distro, e.g. Fedora Workstation. Done.

For me, that didn't work at the time due to internet problems. If you encounter issues, do the following:

Go to https://fedoraproject.org/silverblue/ and download the normal Silverblue version there and install it the same way you did the Workstation.
Go to https://universal-blue.org/images/, open your terminal and rebase. Do that by pasting rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/silverblue-surface (I think that's the correct image) and wait for it to download and apply.
Reboot
Open the terminal again and paste rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/silverblue-surface:latest. Wait and reboot again.
It isn't as elegant as the first option, but if it doesn't work, then consider the alternative steps.

[–] TheLightItBurns 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You are a champion! Thank you for this info! I’ve been wanting to install something else on my Surface pro 7 since I started using W11 on it and immediately disliked it. Your comment just turned that into a much easier process for my weekend!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're welcome! Glad to help.

Just remember that Silverblue/ the immutable desktops are still relatively new. For more information, read my newest post about image based desktops. It's hopefully written in a way everyone can understand it, no matter the prior experience :)

[–] TheLightItBurns 3 points 10 months ago

I appreciate it! I’ll take a look at that post as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Thank you so much!!