Surface 3 is a castrated version of Surface Pro 3. The main reason is that the cpu uses atom, and the disk uses mmc instead of the claimed ssd. Of course
The price is much lower, suitable for diaosi. Then installing ubuntu on Surface 3 is not as smooth as Surface Pro 3. The so-called ugly people
Surface 3 installation is very troublesome, but if you strictly follow the steps below, then you can still use linux.
1. Prepare a USB flash drive and put the ubuntu 14.04.4 image into the USB flash drive (note that it can only be installed on a USB flash drive, not a usb To CD-ROM drive)
2. Prepare a usb keyboard and a usb1 drag 2 transfer port, insert the transfer port into Surface 3, and then connect the usb keyboard and U disk (if you use
USB drive installation, then not only your Linux installation interface can’t be seen, but also your windows can’t get up, it’s so weird. In addition, the reason for using USB keyboard
is that the native version of Surface 3 does not support ubuntu type cover keyboard input)
3. Press the power key and the volume up key to enter the uefi mode, turn off the security boot option
4. Enter Disk Management (English version os) in windows ) Or control panel -> Service -> Disk management, compress the partition occupied by windows a little bit to
linux, I compressed 60G for Linux use.
5. Select the USB flash drive to boot from the windows restart interface. After entering the grub interface, note that you must add the nomodeset parameter (don’t add any other startup parameters, including text)
6. F10 enters the installation interface to install the system.
7. After the system is installed, I enter the login interface of ubuntu. After entering the password, it keeps locked and cannot enter the UI. This problem is a common problem of ubuntu 14.04,
I did not find a solution, so I reinstalled the system and set the user to log in without entering a password.