Need Help Changing OS from Windows 10 to PureOS

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I never used a Surface Pro laptop but I do expect some problems in using it with PureOS. Also, in the link above they say:

@Solved by Manuel in post #18

As long as PureOS does not work with UEFI you’ll probably not get PureOS to work on your Surface, and having to use all those no free drivers to get all the parts to work it’ll no longer be PureOS anyway so you could just as well use Debian with Gnome then you have PureOS without beeing pure. Since all the low level Security Features that PureOS brings out of the box only work on Purism Hardware.
There should be no difference.

So my suggestion would be to try Ubuntu instead. I do not create digital art, so cannot tell you precisely which one is better for that, but Ubuntu typically provides a more updated software, so it could be better for your use case.

This is often a problem with “Windows-certified” hardware: the vendor does not care about Linux and when installing it you might have problems with small things like WiFi or suspend because of that. If you want a truly reliable Linux experience, consider buying a preinstalled Linux if you can.