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The summary is a short talk about converting MS Surface Row from Windows to Ubuntu.
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Good day, my name is JWP, and I have a, I want to do a Linux podcast, it's been a while.
I'm in my car, and I've got my phone, and so I'm hoping that this works out pretty well.
I'm hoping that it will, and I promised Ken Fallen and Dave that I would be a little more active,
and so I'm in the car, I'm going to be in the car for the next little while, and I'm pretty sure the quality on this is going to be okay.
Coming through the Bluetooth.
So, I've had so many projects going on this year with so many different things, Ken was like, just any one of those would be a good.
So, let's start last August or August a year ago, I purchased an original Microsoft Surface Pro.
I had heard about the Surface Pro and the project from the Linux actor, so I didn't know what was talking about how he really liked the Surface Pro with 1404.
And I was like okay, and I went, I bought it, it was 300 bucks, and it came with a keyboard and a case, and it was all dolled out when I got it.
And of course, the display on that, you know, when I want to stream movies or something, you know, from Amazon or Netflix or watch on my code, that screen is just absolutely perfect.
And it is absolutely the perfect plane, plain train kind of device.
So, if you do a lot of planes or a lot of trains, this is the thing for you.
And so it was 300 bucks with everything, and I picked it up in the States, and I mean, first thing I did was it had Windows 8 on it, and Windows 8 professional.
And I think that got boosted to Windows 8.1 or something I had to go through all the other days, and it took forever. And my employer had an employee, Microsoft thing, so I got the full office suite.
So, just in case I actually couldn't do something with this, with the image that I was going to put on, I had a backup.
I could announce now that I loaded it one time in December, and it loaded with, to do the updates, I've never used it for work.
My employer got a thing called Office 365, or Microsoft Online, and I can use any browser and do 90% of my work, everything except for Skype.
I can do with just a web browser. And so I got the box, and originally there was all kinds of special kernels that you had to have, and all the other stuff, and I installed it and it got a little junkie, and I was like, I don't know.
So, then I finally just said, you know what, I'm just going to, I'm just going to get the 16.4.1.
I'm just going to put it on, and it worked like a champ on that original Microsoft service pro with the 4 gigabyte, 128 gigabyte of far drive, and it worked.
It just worked perfectly.
And so, and I really liked Ubuntu, mostly all that know me, I know that I'm a big mint follower, a big mint follower, and so I followed a mint pretty closely, but that touch screen with the pan or with your finger, it works really, really well with Ubuntu.
And so, I've had a really good luck with it.
I installed all of the things that I needed on there.
I got the Mozilla PPA, I got the XBNC or Cody thing, and then I put the hat on, so I needed to do what I needed to do with Cody, and so it worked out pretty fine.
The only knock that I'll have is that the power program, unlike with Mint or with Ubuntu made, it's not automatically installed in Ubuntu 6004.1.
So, you have to go do the settings yourself, and then adjust the brightness on it, or you're only going to get, I mean, it's a little older now, so you're only going to get it.
About one movie off of it, unplugged, it may be a movie and a half if you turn on the power management from the console, from the console and stuff.
It's okay, I mean, I do it around a living room, or most of the time I just keep it plugged in and put it on the nightstand at the hotel room, plugging in on the train, so it's still all triportable into display is absolutely fantastic.
And my Cody set up, I went ahead and added, there's a Joker theme, so you can find if you need a Cody, you get the Joker theme, and it provides all sorts of things, and sometimes work, and sometimes don't, but there's a awful lot of free legal content,
and there's awful lot of illegal content, depending on where you live and and stuff, but remember that if you're not, you're not sharing your only streaming.
So depending on which country you live and that's, as to which, which send that particular thing would be, it works pretty flawlessly with YouTube, not inside the Cody, but from the browser.
If I use a fellow Chrome or our Chromium, that no problem, it brings up everything that I needed to bring up, and I can watch everything, and the image overall, it's about 16 gigabytes or so, and it's been a really good thing.
I haven't sold this thing called Telegram, I heard about Telegram, and I have a message with my brothers, a lot, and I use Hangouts at the whole thing works, even recently, I got that figured out how to make Netflix work, or Netflix became available, and I was able to get it to work recently on it.
Well, like I said, I got the information from the Scott Noah, the Linux action show that he had won, and he liked it, and so I found it, and I got it, and I sort of did the project.
It may or may not be interesting for y'all, but it's definitely doable with the original Microsoft Surface Pro and Stock Addiction with no special downloads or anything like that from anywhere.
And it works pretty falsely. All right, you'll have a great day, and may the force be with you.
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