Hi everyone!

I’m struggling with two things on my Surface Go 1 with Fedora 41 on it.

  • I’m trying to get rid of the Surface Kernel I once installed. Apparently I should type sudo dnf remove kernel-surface but then the terminal tells me that there is no corresponding package. Still, when I type uname -a I can see that the kernel is 6.12.7-1.surface.fc41.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT. How can I get rid of it as it makes things tricky if I want to deploy my installation on another computer?

  • I’m looking for a PDF viewer which would allow me to go from one PDF file to another without going back to the file explorer. In a way, I’d want it to work a bit like an image viewer where you only have to click on an arrow to go to the next image. Is there such a program?

Thanks for your help!

  • Dariusmiles2123OP
    1•21 hours ago

    Thanks for the answer, but then how do I remove all of these packages?

    I haven’t found a proper answer on the web.

    • @just_another_person
      2•16 hours ago

      You don’t really need to worry them at all, because they won’t be actively affecting anything, but the process would be like this:

      • Install different kernel packages to take over for these surface ones
      • Reboot
      • Verify surface kernel is no longer active and everything is working fine
      • Run dnf autoremove and see if that will remove these extra kernel packages. If not, use rpm -qa | grep kernel to find all the surface kernel packages to remove.

      But again, and let me stress this because it sounds like you’re not super experienced with this: there is no benefit to removing these packages versus just switching the running kernel, only risk.