I’ve been trying to install Fedora KDE (newest version) on my Surface Book 2, but I can’t get past the boot screen. I always get a white dot in the top left and a small keyboard icon in the bottom right. I left it running overnight, but nothing changed. Here’s what I’ve tried so far:
I know of this project, but not sure if surfaces don’t support booting at all.
you could try to install a universal blue surface ISO on your device. They base directly off Fedoras “Atomic Desktops” and add a lot of hardware customizations and quality-of-life improvements to their systems.
Get Ventoy - choose your stick - throw Fedora 41 ISO on it - wait…
Don’t forget to select GRUB2.
The only issue now? I ditched Windows (like my Dad ditched me) and went all in on Fedora. Have something over 200GB storage and only 40GB are free, so I had to make space. Picked my main drive, it started loading… waited till 2 AM, not even halfway done. Woke up today—just a bit over half ._. “The installation is being prepared”
Maybe I should’ve reset to factory settings first?
Is it normal for this to take so long?
Hmm, it’s loading but very slowly—it’s a Surface Book 2 from 2018.
For “install destination,” I chose my Samsung drive, which is my main drive, completely filled (over 200GB) with only 40GB free. I decided to wipe everything, and since then, it’s been loading slowly but steadily.
What could I have done differently to prevent this long loading time?
do you know what to do if its not finished when I’m home again?
The total installation size should be under 10GB i think.
Did you also remove the existing partitions on the drive, or did you only delete the data that was on it? I’m not sure what the cause could be, but if somehow the original partition types remained intact and are still ntfs, perhaps that could play a role.
No, there were no partition types—just one drive, and I selected it.
I got something like: “Are you sure you want to delete everything?” and clicked Yes.
Maybe I should just wait and see what happens? I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?