Hey everyone!

As described in the title, I have a Surface Go 1 happily running Fedora 39. The only downsides are that the cameras aren’t working and that my mouse (Modern Mobile from Microsoft) sometimes doesn’t connect or disconnects.

I don’t really care about the cameras, as I can use my phone for anything requiring it, but I get really irritated when my Surface Modern mouse doesn’t connect for a 30 seconds when I launch the OS and then connects after moving it a few times unsuccesfuly. Also, sometime without any reason or sometimes after 5 minutes of inactivity, it disconnects.

I’ve used the same mouse on my wife’s MacBook Pro running Fedora and I don’t remember having these problems.

I was looking at installing the Surface Kernel but I’m not so experienced I would be scared to damage my installation. I have a Clonezilla backup just in case but I’d want to avoid the useless hassle.

Has anyone experienced that issue and do you think the Surface Kernel could help?

  • Dariusmiles2123OP
    3·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for the thorough answer. I’ll probably just try the surface kernel but I’ll look more into what ublue is.

    • throwawayish@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the thorough answer.

      It has been my pleasure. Though, most of it was part of the suggestion to use uBlue 😅. I hope you’ll manage regardless of how you go about it 😊!

      I’ll probably just try the surface kernel

      Fair.

      but I’ll look more into what ublue is.

      I’m eager to help out if required 😜.