Breathing new life into a 2020 Surface Go tablet
Or how to Un-Microsoft a Microsoft device
For a quite some time I have been looking for a small, portable but reasonably powerful PC which I could easily take with me daily. Sure, I own a perfectly fine Macbook Air but with its full metal body and 13" screen it's not something you can easily chug into a small sling bag. I also didn't want to invest too much money in such a device because I had just justified buying a modern Macbook which are - as you know - not really on the inexpensive side. So my requirements were the following: Small size (12" or less) Cheap (150 € or less) Should run Linux without too much tinkering needed Fast enough to do web browsing, some coding, and play 2D games on the go Eventually I stumbled upon posts recommending a used Microsoft Surface Go tablet for just this use case. Last week I finally found a refurbished one on Amazon. It was in "good" condition and set me back about 115€. When it arrived I…
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