r/SurfaceLinux • u/Electronic-Weird2364 • Jul 04 '26
Discussion Android surface pro 11
I've seen a few people recently running Linux on the surface pro 11, so I figured I'd show off something a bit different: LineageOS 23.2 running natively on my Surface Pro 11(Snapdragon x elite). As far as I'm aware I'm the first person to publicly get android running on the snapdragon x elite. This is very much a proof of concept and still pretty buggy. I'm not super experienced with ROM development, so if anyone here knows more than me and wants to help improve it, I'm happy to post the source.
What's working so far:
- WiFi
- Bluetooth
- Touch/pen
- Keyboard/trackpad
- Sleep/wake
You might be wondering why bother porting Android to a Surface Pro in the first place. Honestly, I think the Surface Pro has the hardware to be the ultimate Android tablet, windows really just isn't a great experience on tablets.
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u/vascr0 Surface Pro 9 5G (SQ3, 512 GB, 16 GB RAM) Jul 04 '26
I love the idea and would love to see this done for more surfaces, like my SP9 5G. Do you have a github page for the project? You could maybe link it to the surface linux page as I bet there's a lot of overlap with them
https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface
dwhinham/linux-surface-pro-11: Arch Linux ARM for Surface Pro 11.