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by tastyminerals2 2229 days ago
They don't and I would not advise you to. I had Archlinux installed on Surface Book 2 and was dual booting for some time but the Linux experience was pretty bad. Camera is not working and never will. Touchscreen works as an alternative to mouse pointer, no multi-touch. You can't detach it. Battery life is worse and you can't use GPU and integrated card in parallel (it's an ever-present Linux issue for all laptops with two GPU cards). On top of that when you have Linux and 4k screen Surface integrated GPU card starts to suffocate and you notice a lag when programming in some IDE. It's just not worth the effort. Just use WLS with VS Code.