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I use my laptop to do anything else then browsing the web. If a tablet would run Linux smoothly, I could see myself using it with an external keyboard. So I could put the tablet onto something so it's on eyelevel and put the keyboard on the desk. I guess that would work with a bluetooth keyboard?

However, as far as I know the surface line does not support Linux well.




Windows has a linux subsystem now, so it depends on how you define "support"


What can one do with that "subsystem"?

I want to use all the software that is in the Debian repos. I don't want Microsoft to spy on me. And I don't want to be exposed to their security issues.


> I want to use all the software that is in the Debian repos.

They have this, more or less (well, Ubuntu rather than Debian). You get real apt-get and you can install things, most of them work.

> I don't want Microsoft to spy on me.

No luck there, though it seems like everyone short of the BSDs is doing that these days :(.

> And I don't want to be exposed to their security issues.

You still are, though again I don't think their security position is worse than anyone else (again, short of the BSDs) these days.




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