That’s part of why I’m here. I’ve been following linux on surface’s installation guide and I’ve updated my post with the errors I’m currently running into. I’m not sure if the errors have anything to do with the touchscreen/pen issues though.

I did run the lspci -nn -k command. I can put it in here if you’d like but it’s a long list. I don’t see anything in there specifically talking about the touchscreen or pen however there are a number of Microsoft hub devices. It could be one of those, I just don’t know.

So I did try to install their linux kernel but I ran into an error regarding mkinitcpio and nvidia. I updated my original post with the errors I’ve run into.

To your second set of questions. It’s a bit multi-layered. I’m wanting to move my main laptop, a Surface Laptop Studio, off of Windows and onto Linux. The linux on surface project also supports the SLS. I game on my SLS as well so a gaming focused distro is where I’m targeting. Additionally, at some point, I’m going to build a full PC with high end gear. From what I’ve heard, Arch is good for high end/bleeding edge kind of hardware. So with all that combined, I figured I should probably start learning Arch’s idiosyncrasies as I’m coming from debian mainly when I do use Linux. I have an old Surface Book 2 and thought it would make a good testbed for this process which is how I ended up using hardware as old as that.

Yeah I did check their compatibility matrix and the SB2 is fully compatible except for the IR in the camera array. The only requirement is that you need to use the Linux-Surface kernel which I did install. I updated my post with some errors I’m running into trying to get troubleshooting done. I don’t know if the errors have anything to do with the touchscreen not working but they are something I guess.

I literally ran into this last night trying to install Cachyos on my old surface. I was relieved when the wireless worked in the installer and so incredibly confused when it doesn’t now… I’m still trying to fix it lol.

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Corrected my original post. I’ve also updated it to reflect that larger context as well as the content in the “…” menu option.

Selecting the “Cancel Download” within the “…” menu only stops the download for that instance. When the Store rechecks for updates, this will pop back up. There doesn’t seem to be a way to tell the Store to ignore updates for that product.

If there’s isn’t a way to disable specific updates, then I’m not sure what I would want to do as I also have PowerToys installed. That also get updated via this context and I like that streamline so I’d prefer not to turn off ALL 3rd party updates if you even can.

Correct. I had mistakenly stated Windows Update and I meant the updates via the Microsoft Store. I’ve updated my post to correct that mistake and added some clarifications.

No, I used CSP’s installer not via the MS Store.

So I couldn’t find anything for 3rd Party Apps. I found GPO settings for disabling Automatic Updates which doesn’t apply in this situation because I already have it disabled. Where are the GPO settings for 3rd Party?

Figured it out…capitalization…always lol. The username defined on Pop was all lowercase and I was sending the username via MS RDP with a few upper case letters since that’s how it’s spelt for the actual Pop sign on user.

It’s the stock RDP settings built into Pop. I am passing authentication info from my Windows client to Pop which is the authentication info defined in Pop’s RDP settings (username and password). I’m manually defining the auth info on the Windows Client so it’s not passing in the default current login information.

I’ll see if the logs mention anything. It doesn’t look like there’s an application specific log for the RDP function in Pop so maybe it’s just under syslog or journal?

EDIT: Figured it out…the username I defined in the Pop settings was all lowercase. I was sending a few uppercase letters via MS since that’s how the actual Pop login username is spelt.

Dang…ok thanks. I’ll keep working on it and I’ll update in case I find a solution.

You’re totally right, I forgot to add the picture and details when I posted. I updated the post with an image and expanded text. I did confirm that the time and timezone are consistent between the two devices.

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