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A cheap acoustic guitar from Amazon… That’s what happens when you’re unemployed, you waste that little money you have… I can’t even play it, I though it would be easy to at least pretend to play it but nope, even those “easy to play songs” on YouTube are impossible for me and I’m negated in learning chords, now is a pretty dust collector that I want to destroy.
Also I guess cyberpunk 2077. That game isn’t what it promised to be.
Edit: people, you also can ask about the game, not just the goddamn guitar. Seriously, stop asking about the guitar, the post wasn’t even about music advice.
I hold some grudges against a microsoft surface… I bought it at a time where microsoft was looking calm, but soon after things started going south. On top of that the table is slow af, and I installed linux, but it hasn’t been so great that way either.
The surface studio looks like a hell of a form factor. But (ignoring that I can’t stomach Windows), I really can’t trust any hardware Microsoft makes.
It really is! It’s a great piece of hardware. It’s the only device in my house that I tolerate Windows on. I bought it for drawing, and it works outstanding for that, but it also doubles as my laptop, and my out of town computer.
I also kind of hate Windows pens. It feels so much worse than the Apple Pencil to me.
Give me a 24/28 inch iPad or Apple Silicon Mac with Pencil support and I’d spend way more than I can afford on it.
I haven’t tried the Apple Pen before, so thankfully I don’t have that comparison. I looked into getting an iPad instead, but they run iOS, and the Surface Pro is a full -fledged computer, complete with desktop OS, not a mobile OS. So I felt that it would be better for day-to-day use outside of my drawing. So far I’ve been very pleased with it, other than my normal complaints about Windows. What’s odd is that a lot of the annoyances I had with Windows on my desktop aren’t present on this Surface. They don’t re-enable all the privacy shit I turned off every update, they don’t show me ads, and a lot of other things. Idk why that is, but I’m glad.
I read that Linux doesn’t do very well on the Surface Pro. My Surface is the only Windows machine that I own now. But it’s such a great piece of hardware that I keep using it. I refuse to update to 11 though, so I’ll probably give Linux a try on it when support for 10 dies.
Running Linux on a surface pro 7+. Going fine. Google Linux-Surface. Note: some distros will have these changes builtin.
Can you still use the pen, and are there any drawing apps for it? I’ve been using Leonardo, and I dig that app for pencil drawing. I’ve used Adobe Fresco for painting, but I cancelled my subscription, so that’s not a big deal that it’s not available on Linux.
Theres a feature matrix on the project github
As for what features work, it depends on your model. Here is a breakdown showing all models and features. TL;DR the only thing that doesnt work for my model is the built in webcam as it is some proprietary chip or whatever. All other features work fine, typing cover pen and depending on the app the pen is recognized as having two different ends like for an eraser. I’m not much of an artist myself but I have messed around with Krita for doodling and Rnote for notes. I happen to be using Nobara as thats what ive got on my desktop and it has the linux surface changes built in. But you can poke around the surfacelinux subreddit (icky R site I know) to see what they use. OH, and last thing is that some linux distros just WOULD NOT install for me, i cant recall the details but it was a known issue at the bios level that kept me from installing Aurora. Keep that in mind if you go through with it and it refuses to boot and install lol. Feel free to ask more questions btw. :)
Awesome! Thanks for the detailed response and resources.