That depends entirely on how well the firmware is supported on Linux; and which chip it uses for WiFi.

It will run just fine. Almost every and any linux distro will work more than fine on a PC with these specs.

I would follow the instructions here: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface, using the Ubuntu specific options for Pop_OS.

I’ve been running Pop!OS on my Surface Pro 6 (i7-8650U) for a while now (with the linux-surface kernel!), and touch/pen support is relatively good; only weird thing is the limitation around what the pen can do; e.g. you can touch-scroll with your fingers (and other gestures) but you can’t use the pen to scroll; the pen behaves more like a mouse, e.g. it will highlight text instead of moving the page (which makes sense)

You shouldn’t have any issues with installing the base OS; the keyboard cover should just work; but pen/touch doesn’t work out of the box, so to get that you will need the linux-surface kernel. I use the Debian package repository (as Pop!OS is a Debian or Ubuntu derivative - they use the same packaging system). Note that you will also likely want to tell the package manager to “hold” the installation of the non-surface kernel, using apt-mark hold. You’ll probably want to hold linux-headers-generic and linux-generic. (I think I have particular versions held as well.)

I quite like to use the “Xournal++” app for touch/pen friendly writing/drawing, and have also used it for signing PDFs (though only the visual type of signature, not the digital type like Adobe does).

I’m running pop on a lenovo yoga x1 first gen. i7-6600u, 16 GB ram, runs great other than video decoding is a little resource intensive. As others have stated, bigger concern is whether other hardware (bluetooth/wifi/ etc) is supported.

Ps- stylus and touchscreen on my yoga work fine and show up as generic tablet device.

You certainly need the surface kernel, so check on github’s linux-surface project for more.

I got it working on an old Surface Pro 3 I had sitting around. Haven’t tested the pen, but the touchscreen and Windows button work fine for me, which is amazing! I just had to turn off secure boot or whatever to install.

LinuxOSs, in general, are really power friendly. You will be fine.

I recently installed Pop_OS 22.04 on a surface pro 4 (i5-6300U w/ 8G Ram). It runs well but I haven’t tested the pen or put any effort into getting the touchscreen working. I just really needed it to not be windows because I was stuck using it for a week.