I have HP 255 g8 with Ryzen 5700u and ax210 WiFi card running Linux flawlessly like it was meant to be, bought configuration with 8gb ram 256gb ssd and freedos preinstalled for 500$ few years ago, immediately upgraded ram to 16gb and ssd to 1tb and slapped arch btw on it, my laptop never touched windows that’s what i can say for sure and it support Linux like it was meant to be
It’s likely a difference of bloatware for HP. For Surface. I really don’t understand how they could have made it any harder for someone to work on their products when they have issues.
Likely anecdotal, but almost all the PCs we work on at work are through dell, with 3-4 Surface products. These seem to always have issues with Windows update, drive failures, the studios come with Bluetooth peripherals that will not let you get to bios without using a kb/m from another machine that is wired, once in bios your options are pretty limited.
They just seem to be the most problematic for us without being all that old, especially compared to some of the older Dell and even HP computers we service.
I’ve quickly learned that Microsoft’s own hardware is the absolute worst at running it’s own software. Well shit maybe not HP but it’s pretty bad.
I have HP 255 g8 with Ryzen 5700u and ax210 WiFi card running Linux flawlessly like it was meant to be, bought configuration with 8gb ram 256gb ssd and freedos preinstalled for 500$ few years ago, immediately upgraded ram to 16gb and ssd to 1tb and slapped arch btw on it, my laptop never touched windows that’s what i can say for sure and it support Linux like it was meant to be
It’s likely a difference of bloatware for HP. For Surface. I really don’t understand how they could have made it any harder for someone to work on their products when they have issues.
How so? I’ve owned a Surface Pro 4, 7 and 8 and a Laptop 4 and they’ve been rock solid for me.
Likely anecdotal, but almost all the PCs we work on at work are through dell, with 3-4 Surface products. These seem to always have issues with Windows update, drive failures, the studios come with Bluetooth peripherals that will not let you get to bios without using a kb/m from another machine that is wired, once in bios your options are pretty limited.
They just seem to be the most problematic for us without being all that old, especially compared to some of the older Dell and even HP computers we service.