Lol, no.
I have ages of experience with Linux, I know what I do.
Better, MS-DOS was my first OS, and after that, I was on Debian for many years, and never heard of Windows, until I went to the Secondary School.
It's quite unusual for a person of almost the same age as me to never have used Windows 9x even back during its heyday. :)
Really?
Then explain why my Tablet gets overheated within a few minutes on Windows, while it stays cold on Linux?
Then explain why my Tablet randomly recognises Touch Input on Windows while I don't do anything at all, while Linux only recognises them when I actually Touch the Screen?
Sorry, but this statement is proven to be false, before it was made.
Somehow, I doubt these statements are also true.
If your tablet is overheating, it means the tablet is doing something behind the scenes, making it do work. Chances are there are at least one application in the background taking up
serious processing power.
Ivy Bridge processors usually don't heat up much even in a tablet, Windows environment in my experience - what did you install in Windows? Some background processes can take up unexpected CPU power. Light web browsing shouldn't kick the fans up even in a normal Windows 8 installation, even with some extra background processes, and all Microsoft PCs
don't have them out of the box. (Windows services NEVER count.)
Intel Ivy Bridge processors are low-power in their own right, but they DO still require a fan, and if you even think about running anything that needs all the performance it can get,
every single device can and will get hot, no matter what underlying operating system. You can't beat the laws of physics, no matter what. (There's a reason why most Intel Core-based processors use active cooling.)
If your Surface Pro is not responding to touch input in Windows, you have bigger problems. Using Linux is a Band-Aid for now - it does not fix the underlying problem. There's been several driver updates that should help a lot with regard to the touch screen's usability since the Surface Pro's initial release, too. Go try them out too. If these doesn't help, refresh/reset Windows. If that
still doesn't work, consider getting it serviced - sometimes it
really is faulty hardware. (I should have known better.)
Everything works without installing those Drivers, actually, and the Battery Life lasts even longer under Linux.
Another statement that's false.
Again, my statement is general - I do not know how well the Surface Pro runs Linux.
As for these 3 statements, I'd recommend to experiment yourself, before making the statements, because they're just not true.
Power management in Linux is generally spotty. Same for hardware compatibility. Some machines work incredibly well with Linux; others, not so much. This is more of a YMMV thing, really, but I do have first-hand experience in Linux not working as well as it should on my laptops. (I blame my laptop.)
I wasn't talking about Nintendo WiFi Adapter, I don't even know how you came up on that.
Oh, right. When you mentioned "Nintendo" without any context, that's what I first thought of. It wasn't until later that Team Fail linked to your post that made it clearer.
Either way, I'm still poking around Windows 8.1, and it certainly feels much... nicer than Windows 8. I'm very fine with Windows 8, but Windows 8.1? Now that's icing on the cake. I can probably ditch Windows 7, you know.
The only thing I'm going to feel a bit funny about the whole thing is probably the fact that this laptop came with Windows 7 and so I'll be seeing the Windows 7 stickers and COA forever. xD