>"I understand why the buyers feel aggrieved and surprised," said Chris Green, an analyst at the business consultancy Lewis. "But at the same time they bought a machine with a pre-installed version of an operating system.

^ Just because it comes bundled with windows doesn't mean it should be inoperable with other software. I'm sure this guy shouldn't be considered an "expert" on this topic.

Facts here: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/44694.html

As I initially suspected when I heard this story, this is more that they use a funky driver, and Linux doesn't support it out of the box. (Believe it or not, neither does Windows!) The Surface Pro 4 also uses NVMe, and things like Acronis had to release software updates to add support for working with it.

Full discussion here :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12545878