

Windows Hello face authentication camera (front-facing).Surface Go Signature Type Cover Surface Go Type Cover Enterprise-grade protection with Windows Hello face sign-in.This is also meant to be the budget product in the Surface lineup, so if it doesn't get all of the bells and whistles right away, it's not super surprising.ĭual-core Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y processor Dual-core 10th Gen Intel Core i3-10100Y processorĩ.65” x 6.9” x 0.33” (245 mm x 175 mm x 8.3 mm), 1.2 lb (544 g) The spec bump is actually a pretty good one, and the product did get a semi-redesign in its last iteration. That's not a totally bad thing it just makes the Surface Go 3 the least exciting of the new products, a fact that even Microsoft wasn't shy with being up-front about. With this product, it's very much a spec bump in an ecosystem of redesigned products. The Surface Go 3 doesn't come with a new 120Hz display, and in fact, it doesn't even support the haptic feedback in the new Slim Pen 2. The Surface Laptop Studio and the Surface Pro 8 were the hero devices, but then there's the Surface Go 3. Microsoft announced a bunch of new hardware to coincide with its Windows 11 launch. Conclusion: Should you buy the Surface Go 3?.Performance: 10th-gen Intel CPUs, up to a Core i3.Keyboard: The Surface Go 3 keyboard feels solid, but small.Display: An improvement over the original model.And once the drivers are installed, you'll have access to both front and rear cameras from any application that uses libcamera or gstreamer. Once installed, I could clone the libcamera git repository and build the camera drivers. That was because they had their own prerequisites, and so needed to be installed separately. I did find that not all the required packages installed as part of the provided apt command. SEE: How to create a Linux virtual machine with VirtualBox Again, there are instructions in the Linux Surface GitHub repository, along with commands that can be pasted into the terminal. That means having to compile experimental drivers as part of libcam. Unfortunately the 'almost' all means that out the box there's no support for its cameras. Linux runs well on the Surface Go it's quick and efficient, with good battery life and support for almost all your device's hardware. Install and use the familiar neofetch to get details of your system, checking that the kernel version includes the string "surface".

You should now have a custom Linux kernel running in Ubuntu. Checking to see that the Surface-optimized kernel has been installed using neofetch.
