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Do you have something concrete to recommend?
The recommendation I've seen for Surface products is to update everything under Windows before installing Linux. That's probably sufficient for firmware updates on a five year old tablet as I don't expect there will be many new ones in the future. I'm not going to be a free software purist here, especially buying used.
That's what I did with one of mine. It worked fine for me, until I replaced that laptop.
I wouldn't go out of my way to choose a Surface again, but I had a good experience, after being very careful with my install and upgrade process.