Fedora-Workstation-42-for-Surface

In this guide i will show you how to install Fedora Workstation 42 on youre surface with all the drivers so you can use all the features.

1. Use Ventoy

Download Ventoy
Download Fedora Workstation 42

Use Ventoy as the boot media HOW?
MBR, NTFS and no Secure Boot

2. Disable Secure Boot on the surface

3. Boot from Ventoy

• Choose GRUB2 at the menu
• Install Fedora Workstation 42
• Don't reboot or anythink

4. Install Surface kernel

• Open Terminal
• Execute the following commands
  sudo chroot /mnt/sysimage/
dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://pkg.surfacelinux.com/fedora/linux-surface.repo
dnf --disablerepo=updates -y install --allowerasing kernel-surface iptsd libwacom-surface

5. Install surface driver-package OPTIONAL

Execute the following command
sudo dnf install iptsd libwacom-surface surface-control surface-dtx-daemon

6. Powermanagement-optimisation OPTIONAL

Execute the following commands
sudo dnf install tlp tlp-rdw powertop
sudo systemctl enable tlp
sudo systemctl start tlp
sudo powertop --auto-tune

7. Reboot

Now you can restart youre surface and use it