this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
338 points (97.5% liked)

Technology

59030 readers
3004 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
338
Microsoft cuts ties with the Surface Duo after just 2 Android version updates (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
104 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Microsoft is done supporting the original Surface Duo, three years after it first launched on September 10. The company has stated from the very start that the Surface Duo would receive just three years of OS updates, meaning today is the last day that Microsoft has to stay true to its word.

Going forward, Microsoft will no longer ship new OS updates or security patches for the original Surface Duo, meaning Android 12L is the last version of the OS it will ever officially receive. Surface Duo only ever got two major OS updates, one shy of the average three that most high-end flagship Android devices get these days.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm having issues finding an article on how once installed Linux on a Surface Duo, but there's a got page on building the kernels so I'm guessing it's doable.

Now that updates are done, maybe all the Linux users can find them for cheap and convert them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you find it, please update me, I'll snag one for sure

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly this is just the Intel/x86 Surface. The Duo is an ARM devices and doesn't work the same way.

It's like one needs some patches so some hw works properly. The other one needs rewrite most of stuff to barely function. That's why so little Linux ARM device except ones made to run it in the first place. Generally ARM devices run Linux like able to run Android, but the other way around doesn't always hold (more like 99.99% as seen in all Android phones)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

damn I didn't realize they were arm devices, I assumed all surfaces were x86. thanks for the info!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

More like a Pi than a Surface Pro architecture-wise, but there's still plenty of cool Linux software that runs on that