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Here’s Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Running on the Microsoft Surface Pro 3

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Marius Nestor
Apr 30, 2018

After we saw that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS could run on the Nintendo Switch gaming console, though not without some heavy patching to make hardware acceleration and Wi-Fi networking work, now someone managed to install the Linux-based operating system on a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 device. A user on Framasphere has posted a photo earlier today of what it would appear to be the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system running on the Microsoft Surface Pro 3. According to the user, the entire install took about 10 minutes and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS runs out-of-the-box without any patching of anything, and it even boots alongside Windows.

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Marius Nestor

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