Not to scare you away, but I have experience getting Linux to run on a Surface Laptop 2 and... It's not exactly the easiest process...
For my machine it required a custom kernel to get the touchpad and keyboard working and it just always had one quirk or another.
Highly recommend Linux, but those surface devices need some specialized drivers....
If it makes you feel any better, I started on kbin and more recently moved... Mostly for the more polished mobile apps, but yeah, thank you for dealing with all that
Working with engineers that were better than I was and actually listening when they reviewed my code... Asking why and going from there.
Surely they can't make it worse, right? ... Right?
Or worse... A dog!
Touch is just fine, and assuming you have multitouch there are good options for gesture controls