A couple of weeks ago, I made a post asking whether the Surface Go was for me. The research looked promising enough, so I got one, alas, it was not for me. I'm posting this because I think it might help others decide as well.

• Hardware support is fine. Ubuntu 19.10 worked out-of-the box. The battery drain was enormous, and it didn't sleep properly, but I gather that's fixable. I didn't try the pen, didn't even get to unpack it.
• It's finicky about booting from USB, had to chainload via Windows' Advanced Restart.
• It's fast enough, visual novels and point-&-click adventures, even the more ambitious kind, aren't a problem, even with Proton.
• It's not really comfortable to use on your lap, because it's top-heavy and the keyboard mat is flexible, it's to heavy to use hand-held for any period of time. Thing is, when I have a surface I can put a laptop on, I'll use a laptop.
• But, and that's the big but, the touch support isn't remotely there. In software, that is. 19.10 uses Gnome 3.34, IIRC, that's as touch-friendly as it gets. No right-click emulation, no mouse wheel emulation, no full keyboard emulation (the on-screen keyboard doesn't have modifier or function keys, for example), certainly nothing like the Steam Link apps virtual controller. There isn't even a project in sight that would cover this. Gnome itself has a few gestures, but for anything else, left-click better be enough.
  The kernel and X11 vs Wayland situation doesn't help. Basically every combination of kernel and GUI behaved differently. Strange stuff, like Steam Remote Play to the Go would crash on Wayland, but only if the Touch cover wasn't connected. On X11 it would work either way, but there the OSK had only a 50 % chance of coming up, and if it did, it would do so behind the full-screened application. On 5.5 you lose multi-touch, thus any chance of a full-featured touch experience, Ubuntu's 5.3 drained the battery within half an hour, linux-surface 5.3 I couldn't find the signing keys for. Turning off Secure Boot meant it would boot 1/3 tries, if that. Really obscure stuff, too, like the screen refusing to accept input after a while, so that only making a multi-touch gesture somewhere else would revive it. One combo had pinch-to-zoom "working" in Steam games -- it would squash the visible area vertically and irreversibly ...

If you need a modern take on a netbook and plan to always use the Type Cover, go for it, and consider any touch features a bonus. If you use a limited set of applications that you know are touch-friendly, why not. But as a general purpose tablet running a full-fat OS it is, IMHO, useless, especially for light gaming (and that was the idea).