I have a Microsoft Surface 7 laptop and reaaaally want to try Linux, but everywhere I’ve looked seems to say that Linux just isn’t there yet, with maybe the exception of Arch. I’ve also seen that Ubuntu is working on it but a ton of stuff still doesn’t work (keyboard, volume, Bluetooth).
Can someone tell me I’m wrong and that there is something out there that will work for my laptop? Im not a programmer and know pretty much nothing about coding so…I am terrified of Arch.
I wouldn’t recommend it as a starting point, but for exotic hardware, rolling release distros like Arch or Gentoo will be among the first to actually implement the updates / patches needed to make this hardware work. You typically will need to wait a bit longer for it to work on things like Fedora, Ubuntu, or Debian. It is especially nice on Gentoo, because packages have multiple versions available and you can make very granular decisions about what runs on the bleeding edge and what runs on stable, while on most distros mixing versions is unsupported and you need to choose between “stable,” “testing,” or “unstable” across the board.
Oh for sure, i think the combination of new to Linux plus exotic hardware is a no go