Fedora Linux 24 was released yesterday. To my knowledge, this is the first fixed release Linux distribution which has all of the Surface Pro 3 basic functionality supported out-of-the-box, most likely thanks to the Linux 4.5 kernel. Things I have tested to work:

Type Cover, mouse and keyboard features.

Touch, with Onboard touch screen keyboard enabled when Type Cover is removed. Note: For some reason the browsers (Firefox, Chrome) do not work properly with on-screen keyboard. This is really a shame and limits keyboardless usage.

Wifi works as expected.

Device goes to sleep when idling, or by tapping the power button. Wakes up from the power button, or the Windows-logo button in the front panel.

Battery state and charge level is correctly reported.

Both cameras work, front and back.

High DPI support works well.

I’ve only done some quick live boot smoke testing on the Surface Pro 3, but the initial expression is very good. Personally I am not a huge fan of Fedora, due to it’s bleeding edge nature and sometime sub-par quality standards, but the level support on SP3 makes it currently the strongest contended on this piece of hardware.

Download 64bit version from GetFedora.org Dump the .ISO to a USB stick. Turn off your Surface Pro 3 and plug in the USB stick Press and hold Volume Up -button and then tap the Power button Modify the boot order so that the USB media is tried first. Save settings and reboot.

Thats it - enjoy your Surface Pro, freed from the annoyance of Windows 10. Please share your SP3 Linux experiences below!