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Anyone tried blendOS with microsoft surface? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Hi all, I have an old surface SP7 that I want to wipe and install linux on. I've been having fun playing with Waydroid on my other machine, but it is running Mint and the wayland implementation is not very mature. Obviously for a touch screen device being able to run android apps is really beneficial.

I learned about blendOS and it seems like a fun distro to try, looks like waydroid is set up nicely out of the box. Looks cool being able to install packages for all linux flavours. But I wonder if it being immutable will make it more difficult to install the surface kernel. I'm sure its possible, but I don't want to spend forever messing about with it.

Separate question, anyone had success running GApps on BlendOS waydroid? It was trivial when manually installing, but looks like Blend's preconfigured to use Aurora or F-droid only

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago*

If your installing linux on your surface pro 7 you'll also want to follow this repository basically enables a lot of features that won't work otherwise, like touch, pen and other stuff, how this would work with an immutable system I'm not sure, for me arch works perfectly on my surface.

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I'm not familiar with Blend OS, but if your goal is being able to run Android apps you can also install Waydroid yourself in multiple distro's. I'm running Debian with Gnome on my Surface Go 2 using the Surface kernel and Waydroid with Gapps. It runs really well.

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