KVM works this time. For the rest you need to calibrate your expectations against mainstream laptops not RMStops.

X11 is ancient history and not a fit for tiling GPUs found in mobiles socs

Wayland is a protocol that can be implemented by a compositor. Since Wayland intentionally chose to only support a subset of the functionality of a display server like Xorg, it became possible to rip out the Xorg specific hardware drivers and make the X11-supporting Wayland compositor known as XWayland possible in the first place.

"We're stuck with just a protocol that can have arbitrary implementations including full backwards compatible X11 servers"

The build quality of Surface seems quite good, seems like unibody aluminum.

Thanks. This link has more detail about Linux support. I submitted it separately for discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824189