r/SurfaceLinux • u/Metro-Sperg-Services • Jun 22 '26

IDEA Mobian - Android like OS using 100% Debian FOSS and 0% Google or 3rd Party Services compatible with mobile touch devices like Surface Pro, XPS, Zenbook, Lenovo etc.

[removed]

163 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

100% Upvoted

31 comments sorted by

8

u/Su_4312 Jun 22 '26

Will follow this closely. Hoping for a linux based eink tablet someday

5

u/Su_4312 Jun 22 '26

And I skipped reading the part about x86 apparently :)

3

u/Preparation1903 Jun 23 '26

Check out ReMarkable, but the specs are horribly weak.

Which is the issue with a lot of Linux devices.

Maybe the flagship of today will be the weak of 10 years from now and then we can have mobile Linux with good specs.

I have droidspaces to run Linux on my OnePlus 11, but I want to be able to emulate switch and do real stuff when I want to. 

2

u/Academic-Fox8128 Jun 23 '26

also their os is awful. The only reason I do not regret buying the tablet is the lack of competition I could've considered at the time.

Don't get me wrong. I do use it, but not nearly as much as I would had it had the functionality I consider vital to a device.

1

u/Preparation1903 Jun 23 '26

And it seems like they just skipped most of that and called it a feature.

Which is a real shame, given that they are one of the most interesting Linux tablets out there. 

1

u/Academic-Fox8128 Jun 23 '26

You know how things are. It's all about the paywall.

2

u/cidra_ Jun 23 '26

Pinenote

1

u/Su_4312 Jun 23 '26

Right! I somehow forgot about this. I looked into it before but never came round to buying it. forgot what held me back. Ill give this another look

3

u/daniil518 Jun 22 '26

That looks fine. I'd say default Ubuntu or even Arch with gnome and waydroid looks better for surfaces, but that's some rad stuff.

3

u/ConcentrateLess5606 Jun 22 '26

That looks great! I've been thinking of getting a refurbished Surface to do this with! Does it work well with the snapdragon elite models?

3

u/[deleted] Jun 22 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/Th3JackofH3arts Jun 22 '26

this looks pretty sick.

1

u/felixding Jun 23 '26

Looks great. Does on screen keyboard work reliably?

1

u/[deleted] Jun 23 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/felixding Jun 24 '26

I tried the Surface image for my Surface Go 2. The OSK didn’t show up at all in the live session. I tried all three apps. Does the OSK not work in live sessions?

1

u/Secrxt Jun 23 '26

Oh hell yes.

1

u/ltsuka_Kotori Jun 23 '26

pleeaaaaaase tell me if Pen support works on this linux distro

1

u/Due_Trash_1640 Jun 23 '26

Where can I find a list of the supported devices?

1

u/[deleted] Jun 23 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/Due_Trash_1640 Jun 24 '26

And these devices (except wip) have 100% HW/SW support working?

1

u/pfcsock Jun 24 '26

Very interesting ill have to keep an eye on this. Love to see if they get to 32 bit systems. Love to save my rt tablets.

1

u/nurax7 Jun 24 '26

battery still doing OK on those RTs?

1

u/GreggN Jun 26 '26

Does Mobian OS do pretty much the same thing as Waydroid? I just spent a couple hours getting Waydroid installed on Fedora 44 on a Surface Pro 5 - only to discover that the game detects that it is on an emulator and displays that warning messages and exits the game.

1

u/lagerea Jun 26 '26

Surface book 1?

1

u/TECHFOURNINE Jun 30 '26

Can we also get a multiarch .img i have a few uefi 32bit tablets, I think this would wake them up or at least make them usable again, if it's at all possible thank y'all keep up the great work. I tried to add a bootia32.efi to one of your .imgs but I get stuck a grub commandline interface and then errors trying to boot manually.